[postgis-users] Points within range of line

[David Bitner]

select intersection(points,buffer(line,distance))
where points is the points geometry 
line is your line geometry 
and distance is the size of your buffer

On 8/11/05, Adrian Holovaty <postgis at holovaty.com> wrote:
> Given a PostGIS-enabled table of points, what's the best way to retrieve all
> the points that are within a certain distance of a given line? The line can
> have an arbitrary number of points (i.e., it's not straight).
> 
> Surely this is a solved problem. Thanks for any help -- I'm still
> learning! :-)
> 
> Adrian
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