I am sure this is my faulty understanding. I have been noticing that some EPSG4326 polygons are only being found only in a smaller search bbox, not in a larger search bbox. Even though the larger box is entirely bigger on all sides (I actually get the bbox from Google Maps). I am using ST_INTERSECTS.
There are many others missing also (all items are rectangular bboxes) , here are two: SRID=4326;POLYGON((-72.0004167 43.0004167,-70.9995833 43.0004167,-70.9995833 41.9995833,-72.0004167 41.9995833,-72.0004167 43.0004167)) SRID=4326;POLYGON((-71.0004167 43.0004167,-69.9995833 43.0004167,-69.9995833 41.9995833,-71.0004167 41.9995833,-71.0004167 43.0004167)) Here is the smaller query that finds them: SELECT * FROM portal.catalog cat WHERE ST_Intersects(st_geomfromtext('POLYGON((-70.88792721557620 42.49270487579740,-71.24807278442380 42.49270487579740,-71.24807278442380 42.23903905725250,-70.88792721557620 42.23903905725250,-70.88792721557620 42.49270487579740))'::text, 4326), cat.poly) LIMIT 3800; (this query returns 447 matches) and here is the outset larger bbox search that somehow does not find these contained polygons (but it does find many more new ones: SELECT * FROM portal.catalog cat WHERE ST_Intersects(st_geomfromtext('POLYGON((-70.70785443115230 42.61915358272220,-71.42814556884760 42.61915358272220,-71.42814556884760 42.11182215470750,-70.70785443115230 42.11182215470750,-70.70785443115230 42.61915358272220))'::text, 4326), cat.poly) LIMIT 3800; This one finds 1545 records (FYI cat.poly is a *geometry*, which always has a rectangular *polygon * in it. (Therefore I do NOT suspect the LIMIT statement, since I am not near the limit) I have also tried a similar SQL query, and it returns the same record counts but has the same issue: String sql = String.Format("SELECT * FROM portal.catalog cat WHERE st_geomfromtext('{0}'::text, 4326) && cat.poly LIMIT 3800;", poly); -- View this message in context: http://postgis.17.n6.nabble.com/ST-Intersects-not-finding-everythng-tp4998091.html Sent from the PostGIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users