Re: [postgis-users] [postgis] Optimal tile size for Raster

2013-12-04 Thread Heng Zhi Feng (zh...@hsr.ch)
Hi Pierre, Thanks for the explanation. I will look at this direction to understand things better. Regards, Zhi Feng -Original Message- From: postgis-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Pierre Racine Sent: Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2013

Re: [postgis-users] biggest rectangle contained within another polygon

2013-12-04 Thread Martin Davis
Is there an existing function to do this? No. Is it easy to write such a function? No, not if http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.47.3370&rep=rep1&; type=pdf is the simplest algorithm for solving this problem in general terms. An interesting problem, though. Would be usef

Re: [postgis-users] biggest rectangle contained within another polygon

2013-12-04 Thread tommaso
Hello, yes, I mean biggest in terms of area. I more than one rectangle could be found, only one should be returned, not important which one. Thanks, Tom On 12/04/2013 03:42 PM, Pierre Racine wrote: You will have to define "biggest" more precisely. Biggest in terms of area? There might be many

Re: [postgis-users] [postgis] Optimal tile size for Raster

2013-12-04 Thread Pierre Racine
I guess maybe you are only looking at PostGIS for its capacity to deal with raster in the database. You have to know that rasters and geometries are located in space (georeferenced) and might very well intersects if they overlap in space. Geometries are generally loaded from shapefiles. To creat

Re: [postgis-users] [postgis] Optimal tile size for Raster

2013-12-04 Thread Heng Zhi Feng (zh...@hsr.ch)
Hi Pierre, Thanks for the suggestion. But how could I get a geometry table in Postgres that is sure to intersect the raster image? The reason why I created another raster table is so that I am able to vary the query size. How can I do it with your suggestions (using polygons) since the polygon

Re: [postgis-users] [postgis] Optimal tile size for Raster

2013-12-04 Thread Pierre Racine
You are getting fast result because you are not operating at the pixel level. Only at the raster extent level (converted to geometry). A more usual query would be to intersect a raster with some polygons: SELECT (ST_Intersection(r.rast, q.geom)).* FROM ilatlon32x32 as r, geometrytable as q WHERE

[postgis-users] [postgis] Optimal tile size for Raster

2013-12-04 Thread Heng Zhi Feng (zh...@hsr.ch)
Hello, I am having to import Raster (.tiff) into Postgres using the raster2pgsql tool. The raster used is 12MB in size and the Postgres version is 9.1 on Ubuntu 13.10. The virtual machine has the following hardware specs. - 17408 Memory - 4 Processors - 16GB HDD The

Re: [postgis-users] biggest rectangle contained within another polygon

2013-12-04 Thread Pierre Racine
In the most simple case, take a very long rectangle and rotate it. There can be an infinity of horizontal rectangles inside it all having the same biggest area. > -Original Message- > From: postgis-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-users- > boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf O

Re: [postgis-users] biggest rectangle contained within another polygon

2013-12-04 Thread Pierre Racine
You will have to define "biggest" more precisely. Biggest in terms of area? There might be many inner rectangles having the same biggest area. How to choose one over the other? Pierre > -Original Message- > From: postgis-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-users- > boun...@lis

[postgis-users] biggest rectangle contained within another polygon

2013-12-04 Thread tommaso
Hello, I need to calculate the biggest rectangle which is contained within another polygon. A sort of inner envelope or inner bounding box. I found this interesting article: http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~athens/cs507/Projects/2003/DanielSud/ Is it possible in Postgis? I have attached a picture with

Re: [postgis-users] Why unrecognized field type?

2013-12-04 Thread Rémi Cura
Or you can use pl-R to use R directly inside DB, which has some pros and cons Cheers, Rémi-C 2013/12/3 Lee Hachadoorian > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:50 AM, James David Smith < > james.david.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 3 December 2013 15:55, Lee Hachadoorian >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 3,