[postgis-users] Nearest linestring given a point, a tolerance and a set of linestrings?

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>> Second and very important
>> Using KNN distance as you do will not always give you the right answer since
>> the <-> operator only works on the center of the bounding box, not the
>> geoemetry itself. So another geometry with the bbox-center much more far
>> away can come much closer than the one you have found. In this case it
>> happened to be the same and give correct result.
>
>Yes, but I think one could use <#> instead of <-> (if newest release
>is available):


No, <#> calculates against the whole bounding box, still not the real geometry. 


/Nicklas
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