[postgis-users] Visualize POLYGONs

Ed Linde edolinde at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 02:09:31 PDT 2012


Cool! Thanks. Looks interesting for sure.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Nicolas Ribot <nicolas.ribot at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, sorry, read too fast.
>
> This may be interesting:
> http://postgis.org/documentation/manual-2.0/ST_AsX3D.html
>
> Nicolas
>
> On 19 October 2012 10:55, Ed Linde <edolinde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Nicolas,
> > Only problem being that these x,y,z coordinates don't represent lat long
> and
> > elevation
> > values, They are just plain old floats. Don't think Google Earth will be
> > able to show
> > them and I don't want to make some weird transformations on the
> coordinates
> > to
> > make it work on google. Are there no other 3D tools?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Manu
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Nicolas Ribot <nicolas.ribot at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi All,
> >> > I have some polygons in a table that I need to see visually to see if
> >> > they
> >> > intersect at some points and to double check my
> >> > calculations. Wondering if there is a good tool that can show me these
> >> > polygons? They are not associated with any
> >> > geographic lat long coordinates and hence no SRID etc, just plain
> >> > geometry.
> >> > Any ideas what would be a good tool that can read these polygons from
> >> > postgis and show me the outputs? I could write
> >> > a script if need be. But maybe you guys have a simpler tool or plugin?
> >> > :)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> If you want to see 2D objects, about all existing GIS software will
> >> connect to postgis and display them: QGis, OpenJump, gvSig, ...
> >>
> >> In 3D, maybe a KML export and a Google Earth could visualize them ?
> >>
> >> Nicolas
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