[postgis-users] Problem finding the center of an irregular polygon

[Ben Madin]

G'day Mikhil,

Have a look at ST_PointOnSurface - this might help

cheers

Ben


On 28/07/2009, at 1:31 AM, Mikhil Masli wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I am trying to find the center of an irregularly shaped polygon  
> (this might even be concave). The use case is to label an  
> arbitrarily shaped polygon in the middle. I have tried centroid, but  
> the centroid need not be in the visual middle or it may even end up  
> outside the polygon.
>
> If you guys have any ideas/solutions or can point me to any places  
> which can be a source for ideas/solutions, I'd appreciate it!
>
> Thanks,
> Mikhil
>
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