[postgis-users] Forming a BAND around a linestring

[Simon Greener]

Try ST_Buffer - http://www.postgis.org/docs/ST_Buffer.html
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On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:17:13 +1100, Ed Linde <edolinde at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I have a set of points with (x,y) co-ordinates that belong to a single object ex: a segment in a road network.
> If we made a LINESTRING that connected these points (x,y), then I would like to have a BAND or RANGE
> around the linestring of say 10 meters wide that would probably make it look more like a polygon or somearea. How can I achieve this in postgis 2.0? Do I need to use some library like GDAL in order to achieve this?
>
> Cheers,
> Ed



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