[postgis-users] Postgres Polygon to Postgis Geometry

Wagner Santos wagner.desenv at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 04:45:32 PDT 2010


Mike,
Thanks!

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Mike Toews <mwtoews at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, you are looking for this:
>
> http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ST_Transform.html
>
> So you need to cast your object as a polygon, set the SRID to your
> projected coordinate system (I'm just guessing SRID=29181 for your
> example http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/29181/ .. look up the
> SRID for your original data). Then it can be transformed into long/lat
> coords:
>
> SELECT ST_Transform(ST_SetSRID('BOX(743295.3125 7182512.5,744414.75
> 7183817.5)'::box2d::geometry, 29181), 4326);
>
> -Mike
>
> On 26 October 2010 20:01, Wagner Santos <wagner.desenv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mike,
> > Yes, I mean georeferenced (sorry for my English). I made a cast to text
> and
> > converted to postgis geometry, but I couldn't use ST_SetSRID.
> > I would like to tranfer a polygon to correct position. I have a
> > Polygon "BOX(743295.3125 7182512.5,744414.75 7183817.5)" and I like to
> > transfer it to "BOX(-54.515022277832 -25.4530487060547,-54.5029907226562
> > -25.4447135925293)".
> > I tried ST_Affine but I don't know the correct parameters, I
> tried ST_Scale
> > but I had the same problem. My idea was transform and set srid.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Mike Toews <mwtoews at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Wagner,
> >>
> >> I'm not sure what you mean by "geo" and "non-geo" .. you mean
> >> georeferenced, like longitude/latitude?
> >>
> >> For points, you can keep thing binary and just use ST_MakePoint(x,y).
> >> And to assign a coordinate system, use it with ST_SetSRID:
> >>
> >> SELECT ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(p[0], p[1]), 4326)
> >> from (
> >>  select point '(-123.112793, 49.246293)' as p
> >> ) as foo;
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how to do similar binary conversions for path and
> >> polygon, or other types. You might have to cast to text, and wrangle
> >> it into some form of WKT, then pass it to ST_SetSRID(text, integer) to
> >> make a geometry object for PostGIS.
> >>
> >> -Mike
> >>
> >>
> >> On 26 October 2010 18:17, Wagner Santos <wagner.desenv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > I created a Postgis Geometry from Postgres Polygon converting them
>  from
> >> > string and using linefromtext to create a geometry but this
> information
> >> > isn't geo.
> >> > I have non geo points and I want to convert to my correct position and
> >> > set
> >> > SRID, for example P(70 72) to P(-54 -25), how can I do this?
> >> > Thanks!
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Wagner Santos <
> wagner.desenv at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >> I'm new with postgis and I have a legacy database with Postgres
> >> >> Polygon, I
> >> >> want to convert this to a Postgis Geometry. Is there a way?
> >> >> I try to do with replace string and linefromtext with sucess, but I
> >> >> think
> >> >> doesn't better solution because I can't set a valid SRID.
> >> >> Thanks!
> >> >
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