[postgis-users] Get concave hull from an array of longitude in latitude points

Martin Davis mbdavis at refractions.net
Mon Nov 24 10:58:51 PST 2008


What's a concave hull?

Aleš Kecman wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> I'm new to Postgis and would really like to get some help on getting a 
> concave hull from an array of points.
>
> For example:
>
> I have an array of points - longitude and latitude of buildings in 
> particular area in the city. I already managed to get a convex hull 
> polygon from this array of points, but this is not really helpful. 
> What I'm trying to get is some kind of concave hull polygon from an 
> array of points, which I would further like to use in Google Earth kml 
> file.
>
> Thanks.
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