[postgis-users] Point inside a polygon

[Nicolas Ribot]

Hi,

Use st_pointOnSurface (
http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/ST_PointOnSurface.html)

Nicolas


On 2 May 2014 06:32, J.Alejandro Martinez Linares <islanis at infomed.sld.cu>wrote:

> Hi people, i need your help, i was using st_centroid to get a point that
> be inside a polygon butr st_centroid got a property  that is a problem to
> me, it returns a point that not always is inside the polygon, cause when
> the polygon has an irregular form, the point that st_centroid is outside
> the polygon, and i need a function that do a similar thing that st_centroid
> but i need that the point it returns always be inside the polygon, is there
> a function that do that?
>
> cheers.
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