Re: [postgis-users] PDF version of manual?

2008-09-11 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
- Some parts of the documentation appear in red? - Inline graphics don't appear to be included (may be a case of moving the images/ subdirectory?) But in the meantime, I hand this back over to the hardworking documentation authors :) ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Siri

Re: [postgis-users] postgis install problems

2008-09-08 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
message if the version you are using is too old. Compiling a newer version of PROJ (I'd grab the latest stable) and then re-building PostGIS 1.3.3 should be enough to resolve this. PROJ can be found at: http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation -

Re: [postgis-users] postgis install problems

2008-09-07 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
is not clever enough to detect this, however the relevant changes have been made in SVN trunk. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailin

Re: [postgis-users] large intersection and resulting query plan

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
here in multi-dimensional space). If there is an extra constraint you can add to a WHERE clause based upon another (non-geometry) field value, you may find that things can start to work better... ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.s

Re: [postgis-users] Memory problem with ST_Within

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
k off-list so we could look into this? Paul/Mateusz: Could this have been resolved by some of the recent memory fixes in GEOS SVN? ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 _

Re: [postgis-users] pl/python query variables

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
help. Hi Scott, You'll probably get a suitable answer on the pgsql-general list over at postgresql.org. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063

Re: [postgis-users] postgis install error in windows

2008-08-22 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Gus Hi Gus, It almost looks like it's just a simple file permissions problem. Are you running the installer as an administrator, and does the administrator user have the correct file permissions on the relevant directories? HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The

Re: [postgis-users] Memory problem with ST_Within

2008-08-21 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ELECT postgis_full_version()". ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailma

Re: [postgis-users] problem with postgree 8.3 and mapserver 2.2.8

2008-08-21 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
de. I would suggest checking the Mapserver/PostgreSQL log files in order to find any error messages that will point you in the right direction. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608

Re: [postgis-users] Building SVN version of PostGIS on Mac OS X Leopard

2008-08-21 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
at http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/branches/1.3? ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http:

Re: [postgis-users] Building SVN version of PostGIS on Mac OS X Leopard

2008-08-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
really is the problem, it should resolve itself when the rename is complete. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list pos

Re: [postgis-users] asGML Error

2008-08-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
d the SQL procedures to match. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users

Re: [postgis-users] postgis on Debian 4.0

2008-08-01 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
1 and PostGIS 1.1 are both extremely old - you should really consider building the latest PostGIS 1.3.x release to avoid several nasty PostGIS bugs, and preferably a newer version of PostgreSQL at the same time. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http:

Re: [postgis-users] Two solaris 10 compilation problems

2008-07-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
will display an error during the configure phase if this happens again. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-

Re: [postgis-users] Postgis to ESRI shape file encoding problem

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
nyone interested? ;) ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/ma

[postgis-users] Renaming lwpostgis.sql and other files

2008-07-04 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
so Would anyone object to this at all? Of course, the documentation would also be updated to reflect these changes. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-us

Re: [postgis-users] geometry contains non-closed rings

2008-07-01 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ql, psql should report the offending line number for you, i.e.: psql -d mydatabase -f shapefile.sql HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list

Re: [postgis-users] Error running lwpostgis.sql - Missing PG_MODULE_MAGIC

2008-06-27 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
dditional "--with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config" argument to force it to pick up the newer installation. Follow this with "make install" and you should then be good to go. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The

Re: [postgis-users] box2d return from function!

2008-06-27 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
e the calculation result correct, and then change the output type. I'd be quite tempted to make ST_Extent return a POLYGON geometry in the SVN head... ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___

Re: [postgis-users] box2d return from function!

2008-06-27 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
unately changing it in the 1.3.x series will probably break a lot of applications, so the earliest it will happen is somewhere in 1.4. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 _

Re: [postgis-users] Postgis installation - Trouble with 'make check'

2008-06-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users

Re: [postgis-users] where to register to submit bug?

2008-06-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
outines that go beyond what Buffer(0) can accomplish. There does seem to be a lot of discussion recently about new features; perhaps we need to add a "How to sponsor a feature" section to the wiki explaining how companies can approach developers to get new features implemented...

Re: [postgis-users] where to register to submit bug?

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ring shp2pgsql to use the geometry parser so that erroneous geometries are written out to a separate shapefile if that helps. However at the moment it's quite far down on the TODO list unless anyone wants to sponsor a developer to work on it. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Cor

Re: [postgis-users] mybe OT: Offline-Win32-installation w/ PostgreSQL 8.3.x possible?

2008-06-11 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Stephan Holl wrote: definetly, thanks. Perhaps you could drop a note on the postgis.org-website for other who are seeking to install postgis offline on w32. Best Stephan Done. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T

Re: [postgis-users] X3d export

2008-06-11 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Paragon Corporation wrote: I guess the only concern with that which Paul Ramsey or Mark Cave-Ayland can clarify on is that since they are restructuring at least the PostGIS part not sure how easily it will stream up. I presume the Geos part is undergoing some changes too with the Prepared

Re: [postgis-users] GIST index speed

2008-06-09 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ave any success with profiling under OS X? If so, it would be good to get at least a working profile output of both query cases, so we can try and determine where the time is being swallowed during the index scan. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Sour

Re: [postgis-users] GIST index speed

2008-06-09 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
y tried removing the IMMUTABLE definition from SQL definition of mcatest() and it didn't make any difference to me - probably because adding a POSTGIS_DEBUG macro shows that it only gets called once in total rather than once per iteration of the nested loop scan. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-

Re: [postgis-users] GIST index speed

2008-06-09 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: *blinks* this is definitely a bug somewhere - there is no way that adding a function wrapper to a constant should make the query several orders of magnitude quicker :( Hmmm. It seems the problem is related to whether or not we copy the incoming geometry. I've

Re: [postgis-users] GIST index speed

2008-06-09 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
#x27;ll leave the typmod modifications for a bit to dig into this. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions

Re: [postgis-users] GIST index speed

2008-06-06 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
e fairly easily that the time is disappearing into the second index scan. The above output doesn't look quite right somehow (it's missing at least one node indicator) - can you try cutting and pasting the exact output from EXPLAIN into an email again? Also we'll need the output o

Re: [postgis-users] mybe OT: Offline-Win32-installation w/ PostgreSQL 8.3.x possible?

2008-06-06 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
website does not say anything about that. Thanks for any pointers. Stephan Hi Stephan, You can download the Win32 installer direct from pgfoundry.org if you wish; look for the StackBuilder project. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http

Re: [postgis-users] build_histogram2d function problem

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ed! build_histogram2d() is part of the deprecated statistics subsystem which only ever got used for PostgreSQL versions < 8.0. If you want access to the 2D histograms created during ANALYZE, I think you should be able to get at them through the pg_statistic table or the related pg_stat

Re: [postgis-users] Roadmap for next major release of PostGIS

2008-05-29 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
tu/+source/postgis/+bug/205179. Other than basic human error, the only thing I can think of is that another package somewhere in the GIS application bundle supplied with Hardy Heron still depends on GEOS 2.2.x series. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts ht

Re: [postgis-users] Roadmap for next major release of PostGIS

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
s slated to be 1.4, although who knows what may happen if new features get added? ;) ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-us

Re: [postgis-users] Roadmap for next major release of PostGIS

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
trunk, so feel free to download, test and feedback. In terms of new features, several people have recently been asking about multi-dimensional indices. If enough interested parties could donate some money for developer time, I'm sure this would help fund the developers required to do the w

[postgis-users] Roadmap for next major release of PostGIS

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ly to this thread. [Note: I have also CC-d to postgis-devel, but please keep any resulting discussion on postgis-users] ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ pos

Re: [postgis-users] postgresql.conf - buffers

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
24KB, as a size. What ist right ? Thanks Rolf Errr... I think you mean 24MB ;) Generally you should adjust this to suit the amount of RAM on your server - see the various PostgreSQL tuning guides for more details. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Ex

Re: [postgis-users] pgpass.conf

2008-05-23 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users

Re: [postgis-users] I'm missing something

2008-05-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
in 1.3.2. Upgrade to 1.3.3 and the problem should go away. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.

Re: [postgis-users] Does ST_AsText truncate or round

2008-05-16 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ST_EWKT() function which will output the extra information, but is not spec-compliant. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users

Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS install on postgres 8.3 running on 64bit OpenSuse10.3

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
have been completely uninstalled before you do this. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://pos

Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS install on postgres 8.3 running on 64bit OpenSuse10.3

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
- can you spot anything odd in there? Thanks, Calum. Hi Calum, Apart from the strange libdir, everything looks good. The only other thing I can think of is a mismatch between the server version and the server headers (i.e. the postgresql-devel RPM still belo

Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS install on postgres 8.3 running on 64bit OpenSuse10.3

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ser you ran configure. You may also try "which pg_config" to see from where configure is finding your PostgreSQL configuration information. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 _

Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS install on postgres 8.3 running on 64bit OpenSuse10.3

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ch is wrong - it should be installed in the postgresql lib directory which is typically under /usr/lib/pgsql/lib or /usr/lib/postgresql/lib. Did you pass in any non-standard parameters to configure? As a first course of action, I would try removing all liblwgeom files from /usr/lib64 and trying

Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS install on postgres 8.3 running on 64bit OpenSuse10.3

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
headers for the wrong version... ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users

Re: [postgis-users] can't find lwlgeom

2008-04-29 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
to point to the wrong one (and hence the library is installed into the wrong $libdir). Of course, all of this also assumes that SELinux has been disabled too ;) ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +

Re: [postgis-users] can't find lwlgeom

2008-04-29 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
QL server so it can pick up the changes. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users

Re: [postgis-users] Win32 Installers for PostGIS 1.3.3 now available

2008-04-29 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
n get this changed. The installer should still work without any problems, however. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-

[postgis-users] Win32 Installers for PostGIS 1.3.3 now available

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ade script, StackBuilder users will need to uninstall their existing version before 1.3.3 can be installed. Please report any issues to the lists/bug tracker as normal. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 87

Re: [postgis-users] ST_Contains() performance problem

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
compare the settings in postgresql.conf between both systems, and also check the statistics target for each of the columns within the join before going any further. Don't forget to restart PostgreSQL if you make any changes to the memory /cost settings. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Aylan

Re: [postgis-users] ST_Contains() performance problem

2008-04-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
x27;, 21781) This should return with a few ms. Bear in mind that the "geo.the_geom && GeomFromText('Point(682970.983613 246747.010965)', 21781)" section is redundant with newer versions of PostGIS too. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporati

Re: [postgis-users] equals and =

2008-04-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
d simply by bounding box equality. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refract

Re: [postgis-users] ST_Union and geomunion Windows Fix Soon?

2008-04-23 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
code that I need to squash before I can roll them out. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http

Re: [postgis-users] ST_Envelope

2008-04-22 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
is.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-commits/2007-October/000180.html for more information. Any doc patches gratefully received :) ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 __

Re: [postgis-users] ST_Contains()

2008-04-21 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
> The function ST_Contains() doesn't work in version 1.3,2. Is it fixed in > version 1.3.3? > Regards, > Stephan Hi Stephan, In what way did you think it was broken in 1.3.2? You'll need to post some form of test case in order for someone to help you. ATB, Mark. -- M

Re: [postgis-users] Version 1.3.3 for Windows

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users

Re: [postgis-users] 1.3.3 Pre-Release Notice

2008-04-12 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
't really know to be honest... :) ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refr

Re: [postgis-users] Upload Table Warning Message

2008-04-12 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
the shp2pgsql output like this: -- -- Generated by shp2pgsql -- RCSID: $Id: shp2pgsql.c 2760 2008-04-09 19:52:19Z pramsey $ RELEASE: 1.3.3SVN -- Maybe that would help people? ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +4

RE: [postgis-users] 1.3.3 Pre-Release Notice

2008-04-12 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 21:46 -0400, Paragon wrote: > Mark has been hanging around databases too long Ha ha, almost certainly!! ;) ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0

Re: [postgis-users] 1.3.3 Pre-Release Notice

2008-04-12 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
y, but as long as the release checkout comes from a UNIX-type SVN client, there won't be any problems. I think we're about good to go at this end - any takers for checking Solaris? ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.sir

Re: [postgis-users] 1.3.3 Pre-Release Notice

2008-04-10 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
kipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation > > for a more complete description of this common computer language > feature. Fascinating. Being self-taught in C, it's always interesting to learn something new - even if it does go against intuition :)

Re: [postgis-users] 1.3.3 Pre-Release Notice

2008-04-10 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
p my Win32 virtual to test SVN ready for release, and I'm getting a failure in the regress_ogc section :( Unfortunately this will have to wait until later tomorrow before I can look at it... ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit

Re: [postgis-users] 1.3.3 Pre-Release Notice

2008-04-09 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
p decided to blow up today - as I'm heading out now, I'll see if I can come up with something later this evening on my home machine. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063

Re: [postgis-users] 1.3.3 Pre-Release Notice

2008-04-09 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
efault value of -1, and then use sscanf() within the switch() statement of pgis_getopt() to read its value. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-us

Re: [postgis-users] 1.3.3 Pre-Release Notice

2008-04-09 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
too far off though... ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users

Re: [postgis-users] 1.3.3 Pre-Release Notice

2008-04-08 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ng: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behaviour shp2pgsql.c: In function ‘InsertMultiPoint’: shp2pgsql.c:1243: warning: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behaviour I'm busy looking at GBT#13, so if anyone else would like to get to this before I do, feel free

Re: [postgis-users] ST_Union throws TopologyException found non-noded intersection between...

2008-04-03 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
gt; Proj-4.4.9 > > I run out of ideas and I am looking forward for any help. > Cheers > > Rainer Hi Rainer, Have you checked the validity of your polygons using ST_IsValid()? HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.

Re: [postgis-users] Another few questions

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
s :( As a starting point, you may wish to add a collection of notes on the wiki, or even better if you could contribute documentation patches based upon your experiences. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siri

Re: [postgis-users] shp2pgsql: can we ignore invalid (corrupted?) .DBF?

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
the first error looks like an encoding problem. You need to look at what encoding is used for your shapefile, and then use the -W option for shp2pgsql to convert it into a form usable by your database. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit

Re: [postgis-users] Another few questions

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
f the documentation online with each release, so there is something like: http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/1.3/ http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/1.2/ This assumes no API changes between point versions though. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open

Re: [postgis-users] intersection - possible Bug

2008-03-28 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
; > USE_STATS" > on "PostgreSQL 8.2.0 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC) > 3.4.2 (mingw-special)" > creates a point with a small distance (but >0) in both cases > > > Greetings > > Thomas and Rene Hi Thomas and Rene, I've added this to

Re: [postgis-users] PostgreSQL UK Conference 2008

2008-03-28 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 14:56 +, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Did you ever find out if there will internet connectivity at the > conference next week for a live mapping demo? And I guess there will be > a projector we can use to display slides etc. to people? > &

Re: [postgis-users] PostgreSQL UK Conference 2008

2008-03-28 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Hi Dave, Did you ever find out if there will internet connectivity at the conference next week for a live mapping demo? And I guess there will be a projector we can use to display slides etc. to people? ATB, Mark. ___ postgis-users mailing list post

Re: [postgis-users] SQL Code to update a geometry column cell by oid?

2008-03-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ith "s rather than 's. BTW using internal PostgreSQL OIDs has been deprecated for years (because they can eventually run out). You really should be using a SERIAL column or PRIMARY KEY instead. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corpor

RE: [postgis-users] ST_Union and 8.3?

2008-03-21 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
on() ST_MakePolygon()/ST_Polygon() I've tested with PostgreSQL 8.2 and 8.3 and the regression tests look good; please can other people test and feedback? Paul: please can you make me an administrator on the Google Bug Tracker? I've done a quick move over of al

Re: [postgis-users] ST_Union and 8.3?

2008-03-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ended. Now in the case of a buggy SRF this could cause excess memory usage during execution that would only be freed at the end of the SRF. However I have a feeling that most of the memory in PostGIS is being held by GEOS so this may/or may not make a difference. But please feel free to exper

Re: [postgis-users] ST_Union and 8.3?

2008-03-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 14:00:44 Obe, Regina wrote: > This is a known issue which I think Mark Cave-Ayland is working on. > > I think Mike Leahy had suggested using > > ST_MemUnion as a work around. > > Hope that helps, > Regina My current thinking is that it's

Re: [postgis-users] st_union says geometries have different srids

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
g arrays :( So it's likely something trying to access the LWGEOM varlena size within an array directly, rather than using the appropriate access macros provided by PostgreSQL. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.

Re: [postgis-users] st_union says geometries have different srids

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
te application ever, but there are a whole list of outstanding bugs on the wiki that could do with being added, and I won't be able to spend much time in the way of bugfixing for another couple of weeks. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Sourc

Re: [postgis-users] st_union says geometries have different srids

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
s down? ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users

Re: [postgis-users] NEED Win 64bit OleDb or ODBC Driver

2008-03-14 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
s has mentioned that before that the main problem is to do with differing pointer sizes under Win64 compared to Unix :( ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgi

Re: [postgis-users] shp2pgsql on windows libiconv-2.dll bug (or application stack builder)

2008-03-14 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
name it since it is likely to be linked in with other parts of PostgreSQL. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___ postgis-users mailing list

Re: [postgis-users] release of 1.3.3

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ttp://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/index.php?IssuesPatchesPending. I'm hoping to have some time to start looking at these over the next couple of weeks, but if anyone else feels like reviewing patches in the meantime, please do. Kind regards, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporat

Re: [postgis-users] Fatal: Symbol pj_set_searchpath

2008-03-06 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
in /etc/init.d. You may need to tweak the init.d script to add a "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=foo" clause in the command line that launches pg_ctl. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___

Re: [postgis-users] shp2pgsql bug?

2008-03-06 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
l free to have a go. If not, add an entry onto the wiki at http://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/index.php?IssuesPatchesPending and someone should pick it up in due course. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Expert

Re: [postgis-users] Fatal: Symbol pj_set_searchpath

2008-03-06 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
regards, > Chris Hi Chris, One thing to check is that you have set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the user running PostgreSQL rather than your user, since it is the server process that attempts to load the shared library. So you need to stop the PostgreSQL server, add LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the environment

Re: [postgis-users] ERROR: relation "geometry_columns" does not exist

2008-03-06 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
u haven't told us how you generated your .sql files, what was in them, how you are trying to restore them and what version of PostgreSQL you are using. So without more information we can't help you much :( On the positive side, the ERROR above is fairly obvious - you are missing th

Re: [postgis-users] Problem with Z coordinate using postgis-jts

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
some code to reproduce the problem if anyone is > interested. > > Thanks in advance, > Fernando Hi Fernando, Yes please. I may not be the person that eventually looks at this, however a reproducible test case is enormously helpful in cases like these. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-A

Re: [postgis-users] Postgresql 8.3 on windows and geomunion

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
quot;. Running a quick "select distinct srid(the_geom) from > towns;" shows that all rows are set to srid 26986. > > Brad Hi Brad, Thanks for the report. I've added this to the known issues/patches section of the PostGIS wiki, so it's on the queue to be revie

Re: [postgis-users] shp2pgsql: not accepting the command?

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
7;s missing on something like Solaris? My temptation would be to simply remove it, and let everything use the system getopt... Kind regards, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 _

[postgis-users] UK PostgresSQL Users Conference 2008

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
L/PostGIS for a future project or if you are already a developer looking for new ideas, then this will be an ideal opportunity to meet face-to-face with the people behind both projects. Looking forward to seeing you there, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Sour

Re: [postgis-users] libiconv-2.dll problem

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
est PostgreSQL 8.2/PostGIS 1.3.2 installer combination? (Note: the installers are all designed so you can have one version of PostGIS per PostgreSQL installation without breaking anything). Many thanks, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusi

Re: [postgis-users] Fatal: Symbol pj_set_searchpath

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
advance, best regards, > Chris Hi Chris, Ahhh ooops - looks like the pj_set_searchpath() call I added to help the Win32 builds find reprojection files is only present in PROJ 4.4.9 or above :( The quick solution is to download and install the latest PROJ.4 version and rebuild PostGIS - eve

Re: [postgis-users] Postgresql 8.3 on windows and geomunion

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
and correct. Is that postgresql 8.3 error? > > Bogumil Hi Bogumil, Can you provide a self-contained test case as a .sql file? And can you confirm the versions of PostgreSQL/PostGIS you are using? Many thanks, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts

Re: [postgis-users] libiconv-2.dll problem

2008-03-04 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
ccess my VM at the moment :( Has anyone else experienced this with other combinations of PostgreSQL/PostGIS installer? For example, does the same PostGIS installer work for PostgreSQL 8.2? ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts

Re: [postgis-users] shp2pgsql: not accepting the command?

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
issue: see the bug reports/patches section on http://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/. (Hmmm. Looks like the wiki is down at the moment...) ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 870 608 0063 ___

Re: [postgis-users] shp2pgsql: unterminated quotet string - spatial_ref_sys dropped

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
e error is reported? Also which version of PostgreSQL/PostGIS are you using? You may need to check the setting of standard_conforming_strings in postgresql.conf. HTH, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Experts http://www.siriusit.co.uk T: +44 87

Re: [postgis-users] problem on srid

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
; ERROR: AddToPROJ4SRSCache: Cannot find SRID (32767) in spatial_ref_sys > > > regards Hi orkun, Does the spatial_ref_sys table actually exist in your database? If so, does it have an entry with a SRID of 32767? ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Exp

Re: [postgis-users] GiST Index

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
;Primarky Key GID" on streets_relation > (cost=0.00..284.19 rows=1 width=758)" > > " Index Cond: (thisgid = 10)" > > > > Any idea on what I can do to improve the performance please? > > > > Thanks and regards > > &

Re: [postgis-users] Wiki is broken

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On Monday 03 March 2008 19:50:58 Paul Ramsey wrote: > It's back, FYI, having some fun w/ servers this week. Does that include rebuilding them so that we can use trac as the PostGIS bugtracker? ;) ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland Sirius Corporation - The Open Source Expe

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