PointOnSurface() would be much better than Centroid() as a Centroid may fall outside of the polygon.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 11, 2008 10:21 PM, easpengren <<a href="mailto:phat-ass@thinkheavyindustries.com">
phat-ass@thinkheavyindustries.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I'm sorry, ST_pointonsurface. I should remember not to post when I have a
<br>cold.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>easpengren wrote:<br>><br>> I'm in the process of working out a way of geocoding using parcel shape<br>> data that I got from my local planning department. It's very nice, if very
<br>> data specific, I wish I could share it. I will if anybody is interested,<br>> but it's not likely to scale to other applications.<br>><br>> I've dumped the parcel data into PostGIS and I'm dumping the data of
<br>> people who live in the area into the same database. I plan to do a pretty<br>> simple join between the two tables (with address data) and insert the<br>> geometry data from the parcels into the people table.
<br>><br>> Now I'm wondering, should I insert a centroid or PT_onsurface point from<br>> the parcels? Or is their a better option?<br>><br>> Eric Aspengren<br>><br><br>--<br></div>View this message in context:
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