[postgis-users] Accessing NWS poly data with lat/lon input

[Newcomb, Doug]

Joseph,

Short answer - ST_Intersects, see
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/75537/how-to-run-st-intersects-on-a-geometry-from-text-and-an-existing-table


*see
alsohttp://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/51869/how-to-find-out-whether-a-lat-long-position-resides-within-a-polygon
<http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/51869/how-to-find-out-whether-a-lat-long-position-resides-within-a-polygon>
*
Longer answer -  go through the tutorial at
http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/postgis-intro/  :-)
There are a couple of postgis - specific books that are available as well.

Doug



On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Doug:
>   Thanks for the reply!   Sorry, I'm a bit new at this and kinda diving in
> head first.
>
> Does this help:
>
> ----
>
> polydata-# \d polys
>                                       Table "public.polys"
>    Column   |            Type             |
> Modifiers
>
> ------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
>  gid        | integer                     | not null default
> nextval('polys_gid_seq'::regclass)
>  state      | character varying(2)        |
>  cwa        | character varying(9)        |
>  time_zone  | character varying(2)        |
>  fe_area    | character varying(2)        |
>  zone       | character varying(3)        |
>  name       | character varying(254)      |
>  state_zone | character varying(5)        |
>  lon        | numeric                     |
>  lat        | numeric                     |
>  shortname  | character varying(32)       |
>  geom       | geometry(MultiPolygon,4269) |
> Indexes:
>     "polys_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (gid)
>     "polys_geom_gist" gist (geom)
>
> polydata-#
>
> ---
> ?
>
>
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>
>
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>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* "Newcomb, Doug" <doug_newcomb at fws.gov>
> *To:* Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 at yahoo.com>; PostGIS Users Discussion <
> postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 8, 2014 8:24 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] Accessing NWS poly data with lat/lon input
>
> Joseph,
> I don't see a geometry or geography field in your table listing.
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello, I've just got postgresql93-server installed, with
> postgis21-postgresql93 on a CentOS system.
>
> I then used shp2pgsql to load in some shape files using this procedure:
>
>
> http://suite.opengeo.org/docs/latest/dataadmin/pgGettingStarted/shp2pgsql.html
>
> The shapefiles were obtained from NWS:
> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm
>
> Everything appears to have been written to the database properly:
>
> polydata=# select state,time_zone,zone,name,lon,lat from polys where
> state='CO' limit 10;
>  state | time_zone | zone |               name               |
> lon       |      lat
>
> -------+-----------+------+----------------------------------+----------------+---------------
>  CO    | M         | 048  | Logan County                     |
> -103.110114271 | 40.7246902558
>  CO    | M         | 044  | Morgan County                    |
> -103.809823690 | 40.2627093692
>  CO    | M         | 050  | Sedgwick County                  |
> -102.351810279 | 40.8758426210
>  CO    | M         | 049  | Washington County                |
> -103.201287262 | 39.9710250432
>  CO    | M         | 090  | Yuma County                      |
> -102.424258955 | 40.0029195574
>  CO    | M         | 099  | Springfield Vicinity/Baca County |
> -102.560453567 | 37.3192132374
>  CO    | M         | 097  | Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County  |
> -103.071690129 | 37.9551177349
>  CO    | M         | 092  | Cheyenne County                  |
> -102.603398004 | 38.8279341557
>  CO    | M         | 089  | Crowley County                   |
> -103.784878922 | 38.3266440954
>  CO    | M         | 091  | Kit Carson County                |
> -102.602884309 | 39.3054124576
> (10 rows)
>
> polydata=#
>
> My goal is to construct a query providing lat/lon such that the result
> returned is the single row poly containing that point.
>
> Does anyone know how I would construct this query?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Joseph Spenner
>
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Doug Newcomb
USFWS
Raleigh, NC
919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
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The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the
official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the
Interior.   Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
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