[postgis-users] Newbie - Spatial Join with a large dataset

[Nicolas Ribot]

> Rich,
>
> If you've got those details then you should be good to go. Use the
> ST_Within Function to select the points that are within the polygons
> of the contients that you want to show.
>

Hi,

If you have a table listing the continent of each country, you could
use it to split your data without using a spatial operator. It may be
faster.

Nicolas