[postgis-users] ST_Difference

[Obe, Regina]

That doesn't quite look right.  What about
 
select pd.* from pandatestdata pd LEFT JOIN
(select p.id
from pandatestdata p, world2_12nm w
where st_contains(w.the_geom, p.the_geom)) as wd ON  pd.id = wd.id
WHERE wd.id IS NULL
 
Should give you all the pandatestdata points that is not in any of your world polygons.  Also I think using st_within(w.th
 
Hope that helps,
Regina


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From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net on behalf of Paul Ramsey
Sent: Wed 10/24/2007 5:01 PM
To: Richard.Heimann at nrl.navy.mil
Cc: 'PostGIS Users Discussion'
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] ST_Difference



Oh, yeah, oops, I know. It's the join logic, its finding the things 
not contained for each world feature, not for the full world set.

select pd.* from pandatestdata pd,
(select p.id
from pandatestdata p, world2_12nm w
where st_contains(w.the_geom, p.the_geom)) as wd where pd.id <> wd.id;

Ugly, but probably effective: find all the things contained, then 
just strip those out.

The trouble is that disjointness is not an easily spatially indexable 
operation. If you're going to take this into operation with large 
data volumes, a more effective data set would be ocean polygons, cut 
up into smallish regular grid squares, then you can test containment 
with relatively good index selectivity.

P.

On 24-Oct-07, at 1:53 PM, Richard Heimann [C] wrote:

> Thanks Paul for the response. I hadn't thought of this logic, it 
> didn't work
> however. Strangely, it increased the number of features by eight 
> times. Any
> thoughts?
>
> Vr
> Rich
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:07 PM
> To: Richard.Heimann at nrl.navy.mil; PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] ST_Difference
>
> select p.*
> from pandatestdata p, world2_12nm w
> where not st_contains(w.the_geom, p.the_geom);
>
> On 24-Oct-07, at 11:45 AM, Richard Heimann [C] wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your response W. I should have posted the sql query
>> earlier.
>> Anyway...its below.
>>
>> My goal is to drop all features (points) that fall within my
>> polygon. In
>> this case, I have ship track data and want to filter it with world
>> country
>> buffers.
>>
>> World2_12nm - my world country 12nm buffered polygon
>> Pandatestdata - track data (point)
>> Panda_diff2 - new table
>>
>>
>> CREATE TABLE panda_diff2 AS
>> SELECT AsText(Difference(world2_12nm.the_geom,
>> pandatestdata.the_geom)) FROM
>> world2_12nm, pandatestdata
>>
>> Also attached are the astext versions of my data as well as a csv
>> of the
>> output from the above sql. Please debunk the mystery...
>>
>> Thanks again
>> Rich
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Webb Sprague [mailto:webb.sprague at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:00 PM
>> To: Richard.Heimann at nrl.navy.mil; PostGIS Users Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] ST_Difference
>>
>> You might get more useful help if you post an "astext()" version of
>> your data, the query, the result, and  a *desired* result.
>>
>> I know the difference functions can be tricky and are sometiimes
>> defined in ways you might not expect.
>>
>> Thx
>> W
>>
>> On 10/24/07, Richard Heimann [C] <heimann at ait.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would appreciate help in constructing an SQL statement that
>>> performs a
>>> difference function on two datasets. My intersect function works but
>> cannot
>>> work out the kinks with st_difference. Thanks for your help.Im 
>>> new to
>>> Postgis.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>>
>>>
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> <panda_diff2.csv>

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