[postgis-users] Merge all polygons from a dataset

[Burgholzer,Robert]

Could ArcView perhaps want some columns other than just the shape?
Perhaps you could put a numeric ID or something else in there.

 

Just a thought,

 

Robert W. Burgholzer

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Office of Water Supply and Planning

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

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From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
danny
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:30 AM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Merge all polygons from a dataset

 

Many thanks, Regina! Indeed ST_Union generated the polygon, invisible in
PgAdmin!! 

It creates a nice layer when I open it in uDig. 

However when I export it with pgsql2shp, the shape is unreadable by
ArcView with the errmsg: Number of shapes does not match the number of
table records.

Here's how I created the layer:

create table europe_contour();
SELECT addgeometrycolumn('db, 'europe_contour', 'the_geom',
32767,'MULTIPOLYGON', 2 );
insert into europe_contour(the_geom) values( (select st_union(the_geom)
from europe));

Then I generate the shapefile: 

"c:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin\pgsql2shp.exe" -u postgres -P
password -f europe_contour db europe_contour

Any suggestions perhaps on anything I've wrong?



On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Obe, Regina <robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov>
wrote:

Erik,

How were you using ST_Union and what exactly do you mean by no result.
no result as it looks blank?  If you are using something like PgAdmin
III - it will look blank because it exceeds the buffer supported by
PgAdmin III.

 

SELECT the_geom is null 

FROM (somequery or table) as foo

LIMIT 1

 

will tell you if its actually returning no geometry

 

Hope that helps,

Regina

 

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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
danny
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:12 AM
To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
Subject: [postgis-users] Merge all polygons from a dataset

Hello everybody,

I've converted a shapefile of Europe to PostGIS. I would like to merge
all the countries together so that I only have one polygon left, the
whole contour of Europe. I have tried ST_Union that gives me no result.
I've tried several other functions to no avail. Does anybody know how I
should proceed?

Many thanks,

Erik

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