[postgis-users] simple puffer script

Charles Galpin cgalpin at lhsw.com
Tue Aug 23 10:49:51 PDT 2011


Rob you can do this with geoserver and it's "sql view" feature.  The docs cover it pretty well.

hth
charles

On Aug 23, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Robert Buckley wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have to use postgis to create a puffer layer. I could do this within postgis, but the problem is that I have to display the result in my webapp!
> 
> I have seen many examples on how to puffer, but none where a user inputs a value from a textbox e.g 50 and presses a button to calculate a puffer over the data with a 50m puffer and then displays the resulting vector layer in the openlayers map.
> 
> 
> Is this very complex?
> How should I start coding this?  PHP to script the postgis query? 
> 
> thanks for any scripts, tips or advice.
> 
> yours,
> 
> Rob
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