#POSTGIS IRC Log - 2008-06-03

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03:30:02 epifanio: hi
03:30:07 epifanio: i'm having a strange issue with some layers loaded into postgis
03:30:14 epifanio: i've a mapserver application that use these layer
03:30:26 epifanio: they are correctly displayed, the query system seems to work properly
03:30:36 epifanio: but when i try to perform a query in the psql shall i get : http://rafb.net/p/zr0Wuy60.html
03:30:37 sigq: Title: Nopaste - No description ( at rafb.net )
03:30:48 epifanio: it give me that the column do not exist
03:31:03 epifanio: but why the query tool of my mapserver application give me the right results? that's a mistery for me :-/
03:31:14 epifanio: if i try to visualize the layer's table with phppgadmin
03:31:23 epifanio: i can brouse the table and in it i can see the missed column, but tring to get info on the column : ( click on the column name ) it give me the the column then tring to click on visualize, i get again the error : http://rafb.net/p/aJyc7X38.html
03:31:25 sigq: Title: Nopaste - No description ( at rafb.net )
03:31:54 epifanio: i've not clue about :-(
03:45:30 epifanio: ok i done ... the problem was that the column in upeer case need the double quote in the query
07:16:08 prakriti: select ST_NumGeometries( the_geom ) FROM table where name = 'blah'; gives me 17 rows with ST_NumGeometries = 1
07:16:11 prakriti: if I:
07:16:37 prakriti: select ST_NumGeometries( GeomUnion( the_geom ) ) FROM table where name = 'blah' group by name;
07:16:43 prakriti: i get NULL for num
07:17:13 prakriti: Any ideas, do I misunderstand the use of GeomUnion?
07:17:28 prakriti: or ST_Union
13:41:56 pimpaa: hello
14:22:27 brough: did anyone have any thoughts on my question about establishing if a geom is 'coveredby' a combination of other geoms, without costing the earth? was it even a coherent question.
14:22:39 : * brough scrolls up 24 hours.
14:22:50 brough: hmm.
15:11:34 brough: I'm drawing you all a pic!
15:22:30 brough: http://pastie.org/208289
15:22:31 sigq: Title: #208289 by brough - Pastie ( at pastie.org )
15:22:49 brough: ^^ I made it colourful. :- )
15:29:05 tazle: brough: what is your goal?
15:30:23 brough: tazle: to return '1' in the last example, where the target_geom is not covered by any single geom but is nonetheless completely covered.
15:31:02 brough: the 'availables' also have a room_id attribute but that's not important to the example.
15:32:09 tazle: brough: on a higher level
15:40:30 brough: it's tricky. this works well but only if the period someone wants to book is a single geom, ie doesn't cross two price bands. logical think is a price_bands table and available_periods table but prob slower.
15:47:58 brough: so "if target_geom is compeletly coveredby by a set of records of room_id 'foo' SELECT 1 ['cause that means it's available]"
16:42:35 apivonka: needing information for new user...
16:43:47 apivonka: I have imported state gis data into posgis and am able to export/dump to shape files.. yet is there a way to dump to pdf/svg?
16:56:12 brough: can't you go shp > pdf or shp > svg probably more resources for that.
16:57:04 brough: can't you go shp > pdf or shp > svg probably more resources for that.
16:58:30 apivonka: brough, sorry disconnected, can you repeat
17:00:15 brough: can't you go shp > pdf or shp > svg probably more resources for that.
17:00:47 apivonka: haven't found anything yet..
17:00:59 apivonka: I'm new to all this ( yet very interested in learning ).
17:03:46 brough: apivonka: if not ( looks like you probably can, you'll have to have a look around ) then you could export to shp file and create the svg outside of postgis.
17:03:48 apivonka: I've seen that function in the db, yet no real example of how to execute it with the pgsql ...
17:04:36 apivonka: I do have another question if you don't mine
17:06:03 apivonka: Like I said earlier, I have state gis data which can tell the road surface.. I've been able to export different types using pgsql2shp ,yet only one type at a time ---Is there a way to export layers to shp and identify those layers
17:06:57 apivonka: brough --btw, thanks for the information
17:07:32 brough: no prob. not much help though. : )
17:30:45 brough: yeah. doesn't look like I can avoid using a union.
17:34:06 brough: oops wrong channel. :?