[postgis-users] Transforming Coordinates

Thu Jul 19 14:09:53 PDT 2007

Hey Regina

That all makes perfect sense now thanks so much for your help,

Alan

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From: "Obe, Regina" <robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov>
To: PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
Sent: Thursday, 19 July, 2007 10:06:08 PM
Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Transforming Coordinates

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Alan,

Sorry I didn't see this email until now.  Still not 
quite clear your question, so hopefully the explanation below will 
help.

1) You can either statically store the values in the table 
doing

    UPDATE bus_stops1 SET xcoord = 
x(transform(east_north, 4326)), ycoord = 
y(transform(east_north,4326))

where xcoord and ycoord are numeric or float fields you 
create to store the values.

Then for inserting you would do

INSERT INTO bus_stops1(east_north, xcoord, ycoord)

values(transform(setsrid(makepoint([lon],[lat]), 4326), 27700), [lon], [lat])

where [lon] and 
[lat] are the x and y coords you get from google map.

2) Or 
alternatively as I mentioned you would create a view and for most purposes 
except for inserting ignore your original table.  This is a bit slower, but 
I don't think significantly slower.

---Now some 
explanation

x is a function 
that returns the x coordinate of a postgis point, y is a function that returns 
the y coordinate of a postgis point geometry

So what I am 
doing here is first transforming to WGS 84 and then getting the x and y.  
Since the dimensions of the transformed geometry are in degrees for 4326, then 
the x and y returned will be in degrees as well.

Hope that 
helps,

Regina

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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Alan 
Cunnane
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 4:49 PM
To: PostGIS 
Users Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Transforming 
Coordinates

What 
I need to do is create a new column in the bus_stops1 table with x and x 
coordinates. If I use your suggestion below to transform the column east_north 
to x and y wont both the new X and Y columns be the same value as it is the same 
query?

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From: "Obe, Regina" 
<robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov>
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Sent: Wednesday, 18 July, 2007 
9:38:29 PM
Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Transforming Coordinates

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Not quite sure what you are asking.  For this kind of 
stuff, I usually create a view and use that for google maps if I have a lot of 
apps that need it or you could alternatively just write the sql of the view each 
time you need it. 

Would be something like this

CREATE VIEW vwbusstopsgoogle As

    select x(transform(east_north, 4326)) As 
lon, y(transform(east_north,4326)) As lat, [other fields you need go 
here]

        FROM bus_stops1

The to use

SELECT lon, lat from vwbusstopsgoogle

To transform back it would be

INSERT INTO bus_stops1(east_north)

values(transform(setsrid(makepoint([lon],[lat]), 4326), 
27700))

WHERE [lon], [lat] you replace with the x y you get from 
google.

From: 
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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Alan 
Cunnane
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 4:28 PM
To: PostGIS 
Users Discussion
Subject: [postgis-users] Transforming 
Coordinates

Hi guys

I have a table with easting northing coordinates and these 
points in a geom column. I have 15,000 points with an easting and a northing 
(brittish national grid) and created the geom column using these 
commands:

SELECT AddGeometryColumn( 'bus_stops1', 'east_north', 27700, 
'POINT', 2 );
UPDATE bus_stops1 SET east_north = PointFromText('POINT(' || 
easting || ' ' || northing || ')',27700);

The table looks like this at 
the moment:

 easting | northing 
|                     
east_north
---------+----------+----------------------------------------------------

226965 |   676038 | 
0101000020346C000000000000A8B40B41000000008CA12441
  226761 
|   675945 | 
0101000020346C00000000000048AE0B4100000000D2A02441
  226696 
|   675893 | 
0101000020346C00000000000040AC0B41000000006AA02441
  226473 
|   675777 | 
0101000020346C00000000000048A50B4100000000829F2441
  226465 
|   675731 | 
0101000020346C00000000000008A50B4100000000269F2441
  226614 
|   675611 | 
0101000020346C000000000000B0A90B4100000000369E2441
  226603 
|   675605 | 
0101000020346C00000000000058A90B41000000002A9E2441
  226869 
|   675621 | 
0101000020346C000000000000A8B10B41000000004A9E2441
  226883 
|   675630 | 
0101000020346C00000000000018B20B41000000005C9E2441
  226544 
|   674911 | 
0101000020346C00000000000080A70B4100000000BE982441
  226767 
|   675293 | 
0101000020346C00000000000078AE0B4100000000BA9B2441
  226767 
|   675303 | 
0101000020346C00000000000078AE0B4100000000CE9B2441

Now what I want to 
be able to do is to add another column or two columns with X and Y values in WGS 
or the standard X and Y coordinates for entry into google maps. I dont want to 
transform the east_north column so that I get another long string as is shown 
above as I cannot then integrate them into google maps. Can this be done using 
PostgreSQL?

Also I would like to do the opposite too. Take x and y 
coordinates from google maps and transform them to easting northing as above. 
Thanks for your help again

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