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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks Andreas, I will give that a go.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:21:15 +0100<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From: Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net">a.neumann@carto.net</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] postgis / PHP<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>To: <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:c45ab8cba3c98432ac7ed27f2108961b@carto.net">c45ab8cba3c98432ac7ed27f2108961b@carto.net</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> You can use the Postgis commands "ST_AsText()" and "ST_GeomFromText()" <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> for this purpose. If you want to extract x/y you can use<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> ST_AsText(ST_X(the_geom)) AS x.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Hope this helps? It is really easy - not complicated at all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Andreas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>