Re: [GENERAL] beginner postgis question lat/lon

2008-03-03 Thread shadrack
Thanks for the help! Stupid error, Shad On Feb 28, 7:04 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fuhr) wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0800, shadrack wrote: This may seem like a very simple question...it is...but I can't find documentation on it to help. I've seen some posts about lat/long

Re: [GENERAL] beginner postgis question lat/lon

2008-02-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0800, shadrack wrote: postgis=# insert into routes_geom values(1, 'J084', GeomFromText('LINESTRING(38.20 -121.00, 38.20, -118.00)', 4326)); I receive this error: ERROR: parse error - invalid geometry CONTEXT: SQL function geomfromtext statement 1 You

Re: [GENERAL] beginner postgis question lat/lon

2008-02-28 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0800, shadrack wrote: This may seem like a very simple question...it is...but I can't find documentation on it to help. I've seen some posts about lat/long but none that give simple solutions on how to insert lat/long in tables. See the PostGIS

[GENERAL] beginner postgis question lat/lon

2008-02-27 Thread shadrack
Hi, This may seem like a very simple question...it is...but I can't find documentation on it to help. I've seen some posts about lat/long but none that give simple solutions on how to insert lat/long in tables. I'm a new user to postgis...I've been using mysql for a while but needed the spatial