[postgis-users] Postgis Transform Problem

[Paul Ramsey]

Those coordinates are right on the edge of the global plane, could be 
hitting the edge of validity in the reprojection library. Try testing 
the same stuff directly using the proj4 cs2cs utility.

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 10:35 PM, Benjamin Wragg wrote:

> I'm having a problem with the transform function in Postgis. If I run 
> the following query:
>
> select transform(GeometryFromText('MULTIPOLYGON(((112 -45 ,112 -10 
> ,155 -10 ,155 -45,112 -45)))',4326),54004)
>
> I get:
>
> SRID=54004;MULTIPOLYGON(((12467782.9688466 
> -5591295.91855339,12467782.9688466 -1111475.10285223,17254521.0729574 
> -1111475.10285223,17254521.0729574 -5591295.91855339,12467782.9688466 
> -5591295.91855339)))
>
> But if I do:
>
> select transform(GeometryFromText('MULTIPOLYGON(((-180 -90 ,-180 90 
> ,180 90 ,180 -90,-180 -90)))',4326),54004)
>
> I get:
>
> Error: transform: couldn't project polygon
> Warning: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function transform
> Warning: line 2 at return
>
> Any ideas why? I turned the postgresql log level to debug5 to see if I 
> could get more detailed errors, but it's exactly the same error. I'm 
> running postgresql 7.3.2, postgis 0.7.5 and proj 4.4.7
>
> Thanks,
>
> Benjamin Wragg
>
>
      Paul Ramsey
      Refractions Research
      Email: pramsey at refractions.net
      Phone: (250) 885-0632