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

[Brent Wood]

Thanks David - I do indeed...

Cheers,
 

Brent



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 From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml at gmail.com>
To: Brent Wood <pcreso at pcreso.com>; PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org> 
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] How can I create a point at a known distance & bearing from a point in Postgis?
 




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


>
>
>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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