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<div>Hi</div>
        
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<div>you have to input a string to geomtfromtext</div>
        
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<div>like this:</div>
        
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<div>/Nicklas Avén</div>
        
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                2009-04-24 Malm Paul wrote:<br />
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                <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I´m trying this:</span></div>>
        
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                <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SELECT submapid, mapid, blob, AsText(the_geom) as the_geom </span></div>>
        
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                <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">FROM submap WHERE <br />
                        >the_geom && GeomFromText(MULTIPOLYGON(((-119.2 33.46, -118.7 333.46, -118.7 32.66, -119.2 33.66, -119.2 33.46))) ) <br />
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                <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I´ve also tried this:</span></div>>
        
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                        <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SELECT submapid, mapid, blob, AsText(the_geom) as the_geom </span></div>>
                
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                                <span style="COLOR: #000000">FROM submap WHERE <br />
                                        >the_geom && GeomFromText(MULTIPOLYGON(((-119.2 33.46, -118.7 333.46, -118.7 32.66, -119.2 33.66))) )</span> </span></div>>
                
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                        <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But all I'm getting is this:</span></div></div>
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                >ERROR:  syntax error at or near "33.46"<br />
                >RAD 2: the_geom && GeomFromText(MULTIPOLYGON(((-119.2 33.46, -118....<br />
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<div>********** Error **********</div>>
        
<div>ERROR: syntax error at or near "33.46"<br />
                >SQL state: 42601<br />
                >Character: 127</div>>
        
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                <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I would be happy if someone could tell me what I´m doing wrong?</span></div>>
        
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                <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Kind regards,</span></div>>
        
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                <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Paul</span><br />
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