[postgis-users] How do I manipulate a polygon?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi Steve,

I think you need to tell us more about the data you are using from which 
you expect to extract a polygon. For example:

1) is it street data, then how do you want to define the bounding polygon
2) is it tiger data? what layers, other data? what layers?
3) etc

If the data is topologically connected then it is a "simple" process of 
identifying all the segment that belong to only one polygon and then 
chain these together into a polygon/multipolygon. only the outer edge 
will only be associated to a single polygon. If the there are islands, 
rivers, lakes, etc. then you might have holes in the polygon or even 
multiple disjunct polygons depending on how the data is organized.

This is exactly what you have to do to generate polygons from tiger data.

-Steve W.

Steve Lehr wrote:
> Can you make a an outline of a county only?  I'd like to take a shape file
> and compute a union shape to generate a single polygon for a whole county
> any one have any code they'd share or a thought on how to union all.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steven Lehr
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> On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:35:52AM -0700, Matt Lynch wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a table that has a field populated with multipolygon.  How would
>>I go about manipulating the polygons (e.g. shifting the polygon,
>>add/drop vertices)?
>>
>>I did look through the online documentation and list archives, but did
>>not find anything.  Please accept my appologies if  I have missed the
>>obvious.
> 
> 
> For shifting you can use the translate() function - see chapter 6.2.6
> of the postgis manual.
> 
> There is currently no direct interface for adding/dropping vertices
> of geometries.
> 
> --strk;
> 
> 
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Matt
>>
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