[postgis-users] View area

strk at refractions.net strk at refractions.net
Wed Feb 16 00:23:20 PST 2005


On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:42:35PM -0700, Sean M. Montague wrote:
> I'm using postgreSQL 8.0.1 win32 version and whichever postGIS comes
> with it, 0.9.1 I think.  My input geometries are multi-part polygons
> imported from a shape file.  Every state is its own multi-part poly,
> regardless of the number of individual polys, at least as a shape file,
> not sure how postGIS handles this.  I'm also not sure what GEOS I'm
> using.  Is this an add-on installed separately?

If intersection is working it's probably installed by the package
you got. Check output of SELECT postgis_full_version() to find
out the version.

--strk;

> 
> --Sean
> 
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> 
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:37:25PM -0700, Sean M. Montague wrote:
> > I've investigated what the relationship of the points is to the
> original
> > poly layer, and they are not the vertices, at least not all of them.
> > The original layer is the coast of south east Alaska with about 25
> > islands.  The points may be some of the vertices perhaps, they do lie
> on
> > the coasts.  The summary() returns 556 "Object 0 is a POINT()" and 1
> > "Object 0 is a LINESTRING() with 2 points".  The up side is, they at
> > least lie within my bounding box.
> 
> It sounds as a bug to me. Which GEOS version are you using ?
> What types are input geometries ?
> Which postgis version ? postgresql ?
> --strk;
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