#POSTGIS IRC Log - 2008-05-21

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02:37:14 Yancho: I need an advice on how to do a query please : I need to check what is the minimum extent i can use for a hospital point to cover all points in a map please?
04:35:59 martijn_: hi, anyone experience with the isvalid functionality of postgis
04:36:00 martijn_: ?
04:36:31 martijn_: I have a linestring with duplicated coordinates, which is found valid by the isvalid function
04:38:31 martijn_: in my opinion this should not be the case... am I correct?
04:42:08 martijn_: this: "select isvalid( 'LINESTRING( 0 0, 1 1, 1 1, 1 1, 0 0 )' )" returns valid == true
09:23:50 racicot: If I want to take an arbitrary shapefile ( not knowing all the attributes it contains ) and just load into postgis the geometry ( stripping out all the attributes or maybe just selecting a subset of the attributes ) into a pre-existing table... is that possible using shp2pgsql or ogr2ogr?
09:27:48 bitner: don't think so with shp2pgsql, but using -sql flag with ogr2ogr I think you could
09:29:12 : * racicot goes to look... thanks
09:30:24 racicot: I thought that all you could do with the sql flag are "where" clause stuff... not selecting subsets of attributes... but I will check
09:32:13 bitner: I *think* that is the key dif between -sql and -where
09:32:46 bitner: I know someone on a nearby channel who could say for sure :- )
09:33:17 racicot: roger... always hate to bug that certain someone ;- )
09:36:47 racicot: hmmm, there is a -select flag on ogr2ogr, just not sure it will work on shapefiles...
09:36:51 : * racicot goes to test
09:36:57 racicot: thanks bitner
09:37:20 bitner: now that I've saved the day, it's time to go fall asleep at a meeting
09:37:37 racicot: happy dreams
09:37:47 bitner: cheers
09:51:58 racicot: way cool... -select does a fine job.
09:52:41 mloskot: : )
09:53:10 : * racicot waves to mloskot
09:53:29 mloskot: yoyo fellows
09:53:48 nhv: oyoy
09:54:04 racicot: mloskot: hows the thesis going?
09:54:18 : * racicot thought he remembers mloskot working hard on that...
09:54:21 mloskot: racicot: don't ask :- )
09:54:43 racicot: been there... done that... I know what you are going through ;- )
09:54:46 mloskot: it's been too long since I dropped regular studying
10:08:01 racicot: hmmm, I take it back, the -select does not seem to work when importing shapefile ( atleast for me ), but ogr2ogr is pretty logical about adding attributes that match and leaving blank those that dont.
10:08:26 racicot: probably good enough for what I need to do...
13:59:42 pimpaa: does any1 ever have problems wiht loading psotgis layers in gvsig?
13:59:53 pimpaa: i ahve a perfectly good layer
13:59:59 pimpaa: that wont load in gvsig but will in qgis
14:02:09 mloskot: pimpaa: perhaps gvsig issue
14:02:37 pimpaa: it does have all the proper constraints
14:02:40 pimpaa: works fine in qgis
14:02:56 mloskot: I'd suggest to as on gvsig list
14:03:01 mloskot: perhaps there is also #gvsig channel
14:03:12 mloskot: It sounds like gvsig issue
14:03:13 mloskot: to me
14:03:25 pimpaa: thx mloskot
14:03:28 pimpaa: tried the list already
14:03:33 pimpaa: waiting for an answer :P
14:03:38 mloskot: : )
14:03:44 pimpaa: no gvsig channel
14:06:57 pimpaa: humn
14:06:59 pimpaa: bizarre
14:07:03 pimpaa: i have 2 versions of it
14:07:11 pimpaa: one in each db
14:07:15 pimpaa: the other one loads fine
14:07:22 pimpaa: not sure why doesnt load in the other
14:08:32 mloskot: check if in both tables/databses geometries have SRID set
14:08:37 mloskot: not -1 but valid SRID
14:08:41 mloskot: perhaps that's the case
14:09:08 mloskot: Another issue may be with missing index or may be gvsig requires estimated spatial extent
14:09:13 mloskot: and other statistics
14:09:16 mloskot: so run VACCUUM
14:09:21 mloskot: command
14:09:34 mloskot: but IMO best is to ask gvsig folks
14:10:43 pimpaa: got it
15:01:02 unlord: hi
15:06:45 mloskot: hi
15:27:03 unlord: I'm just now trying out postgis
15:27:13 unlord: I run gentoo linux, I saw there was a package for this
15:27:33 pimpaa: g2g bye
15:27:44 unlord: there is a geos USE flag
15:28:02 unlord: is that something I want?
15:35:51 mloskot: unlord: yes, you want geos
15:37:10 mloskot: unlord: go to http://postgis.refractions.net -> documentation
15:37:11 sigq: Title: PostGIS : Home ( at postgis.refractions.net )
15:37:29 mloskot: and check chapter 2.1 where you will see all postgis requirements
15:37:38 mloskot: plus, compilation procedure
15:37:42 mloskot: g'night
16:12:56 unlord: okay
16:20:11 unlord: Error #1: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: type "geometry" does not exist
16:48:58 unlord: okay, that is fixed