[postgis-users] How can I create a point at a known distance & bearing from a point in Postgis?

[David Rowley]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Brent Wood <pcreso at pcreso.com> wrote:

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>
> Hi,
>
> I have a dataset with start & end points that we are represtnting as
> linestrings. Many records do not have endpoints - so we are takimg the
> median bearling for comparable startpoints & creating an arbitrary endpoint.
>
> While it is easy to get a bearing for a known endpoint with ST_Azimuth(),
> is there a simple way in Postgis to get the point at a defined distance &
> bearing? I've perused the docs & nothing jumped out as an obvious solution.
>
>
Sounds like you need ST_Project()

Regards

David Rowley
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