[postgis-users] TIN from point coverage

[Olivier Courtin]

On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Pierre Racine wrote:

Hi Pierre,

> Is there a way now to produce a TIN (or Polyhedral surface I guess)  
> from a table of point geometry?

Nope, as the (initial) use case for TIN is not coverage, but rather  
City Model
(so small precomputed volumes)

If we want such a thing we have to be able to triangulate the point  
cloud
and to split the resulted TIN in several small subpart.

--
Olivier