#POSTGIS IRC Log - 2008-07-11

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02:07:44 arkygeek: hi everyone
02:08:27 arkygeek: I am trying to follow the example given in postgis-introduction but am having problems...
02:09:04 arkygeek: I want to do two things... first, I want to count the number of points within 30km of a particular point
02:09:31 arkygeek: second, I want to make a list of all of those sites
02:09:45 arkygeek: ( with their distance from the site shown )
02:10:38 arkygeek: select astext( the_geom ) from jadis where SiteNo=2022002; that gives me: POINT( 744800 3611100 )
02:10:45 arkygeek: thats the starting point
02:27:31 arkygeek: epifanio: hi
02:27:38 epifanio: hi
02:28:08 arkygeek: when/if you have a couple minutes, I am having trouble with a couple of things...
02:28:17 arkygeek: I want to do two things... first, I want to count the number of points within 30km of a particular point
02:28:22 arkygeek: second, I want to make a list of all of those sites
02:28:29 arkygeek: select astext( the_geom ) from jadis where SiteNo=2022002; that gives me: POINT( 744800 3611100 )
02:29:00 arkygeek: select sum( jadis ) as sites_near_shuna where the_geom && setsrid( expand( 'POINT( 744800 3611100 )'::geometry,30000 ),32636 ) <---- thats about as far as I got
02:36:00 arkygeek: epifanio: I just tried this, but it errors on me.... select sum( jadis ) as SiteNo from jadis where the_geom && setsrid( expand( 'POINT( 744800 3611100 )'::geometry,30000 ),32636 ) and distance( the_geom, geomfromtext( 'POINT( 744800 3611100 )', 32636 ) ) <30000;
02:41:53 arkygeek: http://rafb.net/p/oX4HZB37.html
02:41:54 sigq: Title: Nopaste - distance problem ( at rafb.net )
02:43:23 arkygeek: it is adding the value of the site numbers up. i want it to count them.... :s
02:48:38 arkygeek: jadis=# select sum( SiteNo ) as SiteNumbers from jadis where ST_DWithin( the_geom, ST_GeomFromText( 'POINT( 744800 3611100 )',32636 ), 30000 );
02:48:46 arkygeek: that gives the same result :'(
02:49:14 CIA-6: robe * r2838 /trunk/doc/reference.xml: Example uses of ST_Line_SubString
02:50:11 arkygeek: heh. i guess count might be a bit more suitable ( eep! )
02:53:24 arkygeek: jadis=# select count( SiteNo ) as SiteNumbers from jadis where EBronze=2 and ST_DWithin( the_geom, ST_GeomFromText( 'POINT( 744800 3611100 )',32636 ), 30000 );
02:53:28 arkygeek: thats working nicely :P
05:39:36 darkblue_B: g'morning jlivni
05:39:55 darkblue_B: I now have a Very Large pg_dimp, created with -Fc
05:40:00 darkblue_B: pg_dump
05:40:32 darkblue_B: I see that the PostGIS functions are there, but ref'd as $libdir/liblwgeom.so.1.0
05:40:42 darkblue_B: so.. how does the DB load go?
05:42:21 bitner: http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.3/ch02.html#id2852598
05:42:22 sigq: Title: Chapter 2. Installation ( at postgis.refractions.net )
05:42:29 bitner: section 2.2.2.2 should help you
05:56:18 darkblue_B: oohhhh -t "*" works too?
05:56:22 darkblue_B: hi bitner
05:56:25 darkblue_B: ok looking
05:58:11 darkblue_B: huh.. the postgis_restore.pl script
05:58:23 darkblue_B: I havent done that before..
06:16:24 darkblue_B: hmmm
06:16:27 darkblue_B: ok all thumbs
06:16:55 darkblue_B: I ran postgis_restore.pl, but it says 'permission denied to createdb' at the end
06:17:17 darkblue_B: so I went in as the postgres unix user and did createdb dbname and exited
06:17:30 darkblue_B: somehow thinking that would solve the problem :- )
06:17:58 darkblue_B: I ran postgis_restore.pl again, still the same error, though the DB clearly now exxists
06:18:18 darkblue_B: maybe.. I have to set some permissions on the DB?
06:18:34 darkblue_B: oh yeah.. just run the script as the postgres user...
06:18:38 darkblue_B: trying
06:39:19 darkblue_B: ok.. that seems to have went well
06:40:45 darkblue_B: the only catch it that there are 2 dozen tables, and a role from the previous install that doesnt exist on my machine.. so I get a bunch of ERROR: role "cs540" does not exst.. of course, thats not so bad, its just that I have to grant perms for all the tables to some new user
06:43:29 darkblue_B: 78 tables in this one DB.. and their are 10 DBs ( ! )
06:43:37 darkblue_B: this is the 2nd largest though
08:27:12 darkblue_B: hmmm the new db has valid geometry_columns entries.. srid = 2992 for 5 tables
08:27:22 darkblue_B: spatial_ref_sys has a 2992 entry
08:27:32 darkblue_B: but when I tred to convert with ogr2ogr, it crashed
11:34:34 landonf: Anyone seen a crash like this one before? #0 0x000000080f32e6e2 in compute_geometry_stats ( stats=0x820617050, fetchfunc=Variable "fetchfunc" is not available. ) at lwgeom_estimate.c:2108
11:42:34 mloskot: not me
11:47:22 landonf: From the failure the code is non-obvious
11:47:30 landonf: er, from the code, the failure is non-obvious = )
11:49:38 mloskot: landonf: drop it to the mailing list, there you should get more response
13:34:40 zanberdo: is there a way to update the geometry_columns table? I've had to drop a table and recreate a new one and now the OID in geometry_columns is wrong.