[postgis-users] pgsql2shp usage

[Anisha Kaul]

Hi,

Many thanks to all of you for bothering to reply !!

>From Chris Hermansen 
> Anisha, why are you converting to shape file?

I failed to load the map directly from the database !
So I thought it will be a boostup for me if I manage to load the map from a shape file, and then I can go for the 
database reading !

I didn't have any problem in loading a world map from a shape file directly downloaded from the internet, but I 
am facing problems when I convert the postgres data in a shape file and then try to load it.

>From Regina
> Never worked with osm data, but since I created the .prj generator in
> pgsql2shp, I can tell you it reads the srid of the geometry and looks up the

> srtext in spatial ref and outputs that to the .prj file.

> I suspect osm data is in Mercator not long lat.  If you want your output to
> be in long lat, you need to transform and use an sql statement

> pgsql2shp -f "/path/to/filename" -h myserver -u apguser -P apgpassword
> mygisdb 
> 	"SELECT field1 AS hs_num, field2...., ST_Transform(the_geom,4326) As
> the_geom FROM planet_osm_line"

I tried what u said as follows:
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pgsql2shp -f ../data/myfile gis "SELECT *, ST_Transform(way,4326) As the_geom FROM planet_osm_line"

Output:

Preparing table for user query... Failed: ERROR:  AddToPROJ4SRSCache: Cannot find SRID (4326) in spatial_ref_sys

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Then With reference to this http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2008-February/018486.html web 
page I executed the following in the postgres database

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gis=# SELECT UpdateGeometrySRID ('public', 'planet_osm_polygon','way', 4236);

Output:

ERROR:  constraint "enforce_srid_way" of relation "planet_osm_polygon" does not exist
CONTEXT:  SQL statement "ALTER TABLE public.planet_osm_polygon DROP constraint enforce_srid_way"
PL/pgSQL function "updategeometrysrid" line 53 at EXECUTE statement
SQL statement "SELECT UpdateGeometrySRID('', $1 , $2 , $3 , $4 )"
PL/pgSQL function "updategeometrysrid" line 4 at SQL statement
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I don't know what to do now, please guide !

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Regards,
Anisha Kaul

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