[postgis-users] Find LineString segment index containing closest point?

[Martin Davis]

Nice to have a ticket for this!

Is there a wiki page that lists ideas for new & improved functions?



On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:32 AM Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 08:46:39AM -0700, Martin Davis wrote:
>
> > The ST_ClosestPoint function (and the Linear Referencing functions) do
> have
> > the segment index information internally.  It would be nice if there was
> an
> > extended version of ST_ClosestPoint which returned a record with both the
> > closest point and the index of the segment containing it.  Or perhaps an
> > extended Linear Referencing function which returns the point, the segment
> > index, and the fractional distance along the line.
>
> I agree such a function would be great to have.
> I filed a ticket to request that a long time ago:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/892
>
> It's looking for fundings, anyone interested ?
>
> --strk;
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