[postgis-users] function from multilinestring to linestring
toni hernnadez
thernandez at correo.giscampus.org
Thu Apr 20 06:25:03 PDT 2006
hi,
in case all the multilinestring overlap (I checked) is there another way
to do it.
I've tried GeomUnion but it returns multilinestring again.
I couldn't try linemerge. It seems that in my version in not such a function
Markus Schaber wrote:
>Hi, Toni,
>
>toni hernnadez wrote:
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>
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>>Is there any way to convert a multilinestring object to linestring?
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>Not generally, as a LineString contains exactly _one_ sequence of
>connected points, and a MultiLineString can contain more of them.
>
>For some corner cases (e. G. adjacent or overlapping LineStrings) you
>can try LineMerge() or GeomUnion() to connect the pieces together.
>
>The first LineString in a MultiLineString can be fetched via
>GeometryN(yourlinestring,1).
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>HTH,
>Schabi
>
>
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