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Select features within a country or bounding box effectively using PostGIS

I imported the planet OSM file into a PostgreSQL 9.2/PostGIS 1.5 server using osm2pgsql. I now want to select certain map features which lie within the bounding box formed by a countries borders, e.g. ...
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PostGIS, distance between two users

I have a simple table (location_test) with three column (name, geom , jid). geom is a geometry column with SRID 27700. I set the user's geometry position with: UPDATE location_test SET geom = ...
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In QGIS can I show just the lines in a Postgis query? How can I do that?

I have three tables in Postgresql, each table with one layer of lines. I want to show the path of an initial line to another final. Is it possible executing a SQL query? Thanks My three tables are ...
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How to Find points in a Kilometre radius

I am new to PostGIS and GeoData. I need to find where the lightning has stroke by a period of time and kilometre radius based on a given location. I have given lon/lat and my table is: latitude ...
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How to speed up an st_intersects() query?

I have a "huge" spatial database: 72GB, 200 millions documents with geometries (points) I have a GIST index on the geometries the database: CREATE TABLE resources ( id bigint NOT NULL, accuracy ...
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How to join two tables using date, time, lat and lon as common field?

I am sorry if the question is elementary but I did not find any clear discussion or guide to understand how to run a query in postgresql. So that a pointer to another website would be also useful. ...
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PostgreSql query problem with aggregate functions

I need help with a PostgreSql query. I need to find all parcels which have bigger area then average. I'm using this query: SELECT OBJECTID FROM parcela WHERE ST_Area(geom)<(SELECT ...
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How to filter or query data in GRASS?

I have a PostGIS dataset with just over 2 million rows. Each row has a PostGIS geometry point value and several attributes. I'd like to do some analysis on certain subsets of the data, but I can't ...
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Spatial index to speed up the query

I have spatial table in PostgreSQL 9.2 / postgis 2.0 that I have to extract some information from it. But my query is hopelessly slow. How could I make use of spatial index to improve the performance ...
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Multiple queries in a row

I have osm data imported into PostgreSQL with osm2po tool (wich makes the data routable). Also I have imported data relationed with nodes and node_tags with osmosis tool. I need to obtain a set of ...
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Improve database performance for geospatial

I have a database with osm data imported with osmosis tool. I want to search for the nearest POIs from a given point. For this purpose, I perform this query: select id from nodes where ...
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How to find the nearest point by using PostGIS function?

table A: lat | long | the_geom | code | sign 13.8433095 | 100.6360357 | 0101000020E61.... | ABC | start_point 13.7544738 | 100.5459646 | 0101000020E6..... | ABC | end_point 13.4124215 | 100.6232332 ...
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How to select only Spatial tables from the postgres database?

My database contains both Spatial and Non-Spatial tables, but I want to retrieve only Spatial table from the query. Any suggestions to select only Spatial tables. 'the_geom' is the geometry column in ...
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How do I perform a proximity search with Postgis?

OK, so I downloaded the Geonames database (cities1000) and wrote a small Ruby program to import them into my table (geo_cities). I then added geography column called geog. So after all of that, I ...
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How to fix performance problem in PostGIS ST_Intersects?

I'm a newbie in postgis and I have a problem in query performance. This my query: SELECT DISTINCT ON (userid) userid ,ST_AsText(position), timestamp FROM table1 WHERE ST_Intersects ( ...
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Basic MapServer query of PostgreSQL/PostGIS database

I've just installed MapServer on a linux server and I am trying to understand how to display a basic map using a PostGIS database. I have displayed a shapefile in the browser, so I know that the ...
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Nearest Neighbor Grouped Selection in QGIS

OK - so I have an interesting problem I am trying to solve. I have a list containing over 100,000 points in lat/long format which I have imported into qgis. Now, what I am trying to do here is group ...
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QGis import partial PostGIS layer using query builder

I'm sorry, but I'm terribly new to the GIS scene (and PostGIS & QGis). I have loaded a whole bunch of OpenStreetMap data into a PostGIS database and successfully drawn a map using Mapnik. Now I ...