Hello,<br><br>I'm having trouble making convex hulls that cross the international dateline. Imagine 4 points making a square with the international dateline running down the middle--I would like the convex hull to be that square, but instead I get a giant rectangle that goes across the entire planet. I've done some reading, and it sounds like GEOS generally has a hard time dealing with the dateline--is that accurate? Does anyone know of a way to get around this? I was thinking that it might work if I use an SRID that is just like 4326 but with a central meridian of 180, does that sound like a good plan? I'm pretty new to postGIS and I'm not sure how to either find such an SRID or how to define it--I've been trying to find an explanation of SRID syntax and so far coming up empty. If anyone has advice for solving this problem, or for places where I can learn more about defining custom SRIDs, I'd be really grateful!<br>
<br>Here's an example--if you make this table and then look at it in QGIS (or whatever) along with a world map, you'll see a big rectangle spanning the entire map. On a map with central meridian of zero, I'd want to see half the polygon on the left side of the map and the other half on the right side.<br>
<br>CREATE TABLE example AS<br>SELECT ST_ConvexHull(<br> ST_Collect(ST_GeomFromText('MULTIPOINT(175 5, 175 30, -175 5, -175 30)') ))::geography(Polygon, 4326) ;<br><br><br>Thanks very much,<br>Sarah<br><br clear="all">
_________________________________<br>Sarah K Berke<br>Postdoctoral Scholar<br>Department of the Geophysical Sciences<br>University of Chicago<br>5734 S. Ellis Ave<br>Chicago, IL 60637<br>