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    <font face="sans-serif">Hi Leo,<br>
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      Thanks a lot for your prompt answer.<br>
      Your book definitely helps a lot!<br>
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      Thanks and regards,<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Richard Gomes
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    On 04/04/11 06:30, Paragon Corporation wrote:
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      <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="640442405-04042011"><font
            face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Richard,</font></span></div>
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            face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Are you points in
            longitude, latitude.  If they are the best place to start
            might be using the geography type.  This requires using
            PostGIS 1.5+</font></span></div>
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            color="#0000ff"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-1.5SVN/ch04.html#PostGIS_Geography">http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-1.5SVN/ch04.html#PostGIS_Geography</a></font></span></div>
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      <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="640442405-04042011"><font
            face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">You can also read the
            free chapter of our book which covers this in some detail.</font></span></div>
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            color="#0000ff"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.postgis.us/chapter_01">http://www.postgis.us/chapter_01</a></font></span></div>
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      <div><span class="640442405-04042011"><font face="Arial"
            color="#0000ff" size="2">Leo</font></span></div>
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            color="#0000ff" size="2"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.postgis.us">http://www.postgis.us</a></font></span></div>
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        <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net">postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net</a>
          [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net">mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net</a>] <b>On
            Behalf Of </b>Richard Gomes<br>
          <b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 04, 2011 12:46 AM<br>
          <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net">postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net</a><br>
          <b>Subject:</b> [postgis-users] Converting meters to another
          unit<br>
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      <font face="sans-serif">Hi All,<br>
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        I'm a newbie on PostGIS and GIS in general.<br>
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        Reading section "Taking Advantages of Indexes" at<br>
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          href="http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch04.html#id2638955">http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch04.html#id2638955</a><br>
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        ... I became confused regarding how I could retrieve points
        which are distant up to 500 meters from a given point.<br>
        The question is actually how I can transform 500 meters onto
        some some other figure on a unit I don't understand very well
        what it is about. I need this calculation in order to determine
        a Box3d like the article suggests.<br>
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        Thanks a lot and regards,<br>
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