Re: [postgis-users] PostgreSQL HStore and PostGIS

2012-10-25 Thread Stephen Frost
Blair, * Blair Deaver (blairdea...@gmail.com) wrote: With that said, I have been looking into the new capabilities available with PostgreSQL HStore Uhm.. hstore isn't exactly new. It's been around since something like 8.0.. It is amusing how people are just now coming to see. :) - Can

Re: [postgis-users] Geocoding cross streets?

2011-11-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Paragon Corporation (l...@pcorp.us) wrote: The cross streets feature takes a different algorithm. We do have that coded as a sub process in one of our projects, but it's not committed in tiger geocoder. Feel free to post a ticket under tiger_geocoder if you are interested in seeing it

Re: [postgis-users] Geocoding cross streets?

2011-11-28 Thread Stephen Frost
Steve, * Stephen Woodbridge (wood...@swoodbridge.com) wrote: This is probably a fairly clean and only little more complex than hello world, but not majorly so, if you want to try your hand at it. Pretty sure that I could manage it- but I'm curious.. Do you use an external sources or bits of

Re: [postgis-users] [postgis-devel] how to keep geometry_columns in sync wit tablesand views (and new PostGIS 2.0 plans)

2011-05-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Paragon Corporation (l...@pcorp.us) wrote: I would almost go with forcing everyone to change their existing tables to typmod if they want to reap the benefits of PostGIS 2.0, but most of my clients will not go to 2.0 then. What I havn't heard yet is any explanation or description of *why*

Re: [postgis-users] [postgis-devel] how to keep geometry_columns in sync wit tablesand views (and new PostGIS 2.0 plans)

2011-05-20 Thread Stephen Frost
All, * Sandro Santilli (s...@keybit.net) wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:15:26AM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote: So that is why I was proposing a hybrid -- geometry_columns -- so new PostGIS can work with older tools Having a hybrid may work for backwards-compatibility reasons, but we

Re: [postgis-users] Geocoder (from extras)

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Frost
* Paragon Corporation (l...@pcorp.us) wrote: I'm not sure how much preplanning will help. Because plans are cached in PostgreSQL for these dynamic like queries and I think they are actually cached across sessions using shared memory. So upping shared memory helps quite a bit. We're using

Re: [postgis-users] Geocoder (from extras)

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Frost
Stephen, * Stephen Woodbridge (wood...@swoodbridge.com) wrote: In a geocoder I wrote in 2000, I mapped city, state and/or zipcode into a list of counties, then only searched those counties. This greatly reduced the 3300 counties in Tiger to a small handful that needed to be searched. The

Re: [postgis-users] Geocoder (from extras)

2011-05-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* Johnathan Leppert (johnathan.lepp...@gmail.com) wrote: Ok, I have it working, but it's very very slow. It takes about two seconds to geocode a single record. This isn't very realistic for large datasets. Anyone have any ideas on possible optimization? It appears to have created proper

Re: [postgis-users] Postgres Tuning - Actual Results

2011-02-03 Thread Stephen Frost
Brian, * Brian Hamlin (mapl...@light42.com) wrote: I am guessing that work_mem is the wildcard that is causing the large allocations.. Comments / Suggestions on this ? Yes, work_mem is used to determine, for each sort/hash/etc, if it should be done in-memory or done on disk. If you have a

Re: [postgis-users] USGS NED Dataset

2010-08-20 Thread Stephen Frost
* Stephen Woodbridge (wood...@swoodbridge.com) wrote: Thanks! that is exactly what I needed to know. I'm in the painful process of downloading the NED data from there seamless download application - I can not tell you how frustrating these stupid apps are. Just give me a simple ftp site

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER Help/Clarification

2009-08-04 Thread Stephen Frost
* Paragon Corporation (l...@pcorp.us) wrote: 4) Do you want all your state edges in one table or separated by county. When doing all state I tend to lump all the data in a state table and forget about county tables, unless a state is sufficiently big where breaking by county makes things a bit

Re: [postgis-users] spheroid bounding box calculation

2009-07-23 Thread Stephen Frost
Jeff, * Jeff Davis (pg...@j-davis.com) wrote: I would like to query my latitude/longitude points for distance in a way that uses the index. The points are in lat/lon, so st_dwithin(g1, g2, [meters]) makes no sense. What is the recommended way to do this? I think what I need is a function

Re: [postgis-users] OT: Any one know of a Census list that discusses the Tiger data

2008-06-20 Thread Stephen Frost
* Stephen Woodbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Would this be an appropriate list to ask OSGeo to host? Sounds like a reasonable idea, I'd certainly like to participate in one. If you create one, please be sure to let us all know. :) Thanks, Stephen signature.asc

Re: [postgis-users] create tables smarter

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen Frost
* Chris Hermansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Paul Ramsey wrote: Trust me, Chris, the maintenance of GEOMETRY_COLUMNS has been a longstanding bug'a'bear and in retrospect we probably would have been better off without it. In order to get an automagic GEOMETRY_COLUMNS though, we

Re: [postgis-users] Loading Tiger2007fe data - Thoughts on using inherited tables

2008-04-04 Thread Stephen Frost
Stephen, * Stephen Woodbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Have look into using inherited tables? This would allow you to have a nation view or a state view of the county data. View being used in the literal not postgres in this case. Honestly, I havn't. I'm really not all that keen on

Re: [postgis-users] Loading Tiger2007fe data - Thoughts on using inherited tables

2008-04-04 Thread Stephen Frost
inheiritance and whatnot. Thanks, Stephen On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen, * Stephen Woodbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Have look into using inherited tables? This would allow you to have a nation view

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER/Line Shapefiles released

2008-04-03 Thread Stephen Frost
! Stephen On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 17:07 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: * Stephen Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think they may have also upgraded their pipe.. I got about 1.41MB/s (11 Mb/s) for the whole transfer. It's about 22G all told. I'll probably be trying to load

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER/Line Shapefiles released

2008-04-03 Thread Stephen Frost
.) Thanks, Jonathan 2 attachments: TIGER2007andOSM.png, TIGER2007andGoogle.png On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 19:18 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: Jonathan, * Jonathan W. Lowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Have you yet tried overlaying TIGER 2007 linework or census block/tract polygons

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER/Line Shapefiles released

2008-04-03 Thread Stephen Frost
, -Stephen Woodbridge http://imaptools.com/ Thanks! Stephen On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 17:07 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: * Stephen Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think they may have also upgraded their pipe.. I got about 1.41MB/s (11 Mb/s) for the whole transfer. It's

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER/Line Shapefiles released

2008-04-03 Thread Stephen Frost
Stephen, * Stephen Woodbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I added to process_tiger.sh: # User to connect to database with or use USER=$LOGNAME USER=postgres Ah, sure, makes sense. We user Kerberos for our authentication, so I tend to forget about user/pw authentication issues. and in vi

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER/Line Shapefiles released

2008-03-31 Thread Stephen Frost
, Stephen On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 20:57 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: * Peter Foley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For those of you who have been waiting, the Census bureau finally released the new TIGER/Line shapefiles. The information page and download links are here: http

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER/Line Shapefiles released

2008-03-31 Thread Stephen Frost
is that you just scan through all of them. That's really not that hard to do. It's certainly what I'm planning to do with the tiger geocoder that I maintain as part of the PostGIS extras.. Thanks, Stephen On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 22:18 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: Dan

Re: [postgis-users] Debian distributions

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Frost
* Stephen Woodbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm wondering if the Debian maintainer for postgis is on this list? Uh, yes, and no, you don't need to also Cc me. I just upgraded to Etch and I'm sad to find out the the GIS stack is terribly out of date. Etch is Debian/stable. It's intended

Re: [postgis-users] A more practical geocoder

2007-11-13 Thread Stephen Frost
Jason, * Jason Horning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: While we understand that what we have is still essentially a prototype, we are thinking that what we have done to date could be of some use to the people who are focussed on mapping and geocoding projects and would be happy to provide it for

Re: [postgis-users] geocode

2007-10-16 Thread Stephen Frost
* Michael Welter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Out of the box, the script loads CompleteChain and Landmarks. Yeah, these are the more 'straight-forward' imports. Loading PolyChainLink and AreaLandmarks are commented out, and I assume I'll have to rerun the script with these. If you want

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER geocoder

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Santosh Gaikwad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to know how to use TIGEr geocoder in PostGIS new version 1.3.1. I would also like to have information how to load TIGER line data into PostGIS database i.e. which files to be loaded of the zip file provided on TIGER website

Re: [postgis-users] How to use tiger_geocoder

2007-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Santosh Gaikwad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anybody know how to use tiger_geocoder? Please also explain me how to load TIGER/line data into postgis. There are many files when you unzip the tiger/line data folder. Which files to be loaded into the database? I'd strongly encourage you to

Re: [postgis-users] Re: TIGER geocoder question

2007-07-10 Thread Stephen Frost
Marvin, * Marvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It looks like that there are more problems than I expected. I tried to run Not sure if you've been following along, but the stuff I'm currently using is now loaded into PostGIS SVN. Feel free to take a peek at it and try using it- might go more

Re: [postgis-users] insert interactively asc or text files

2007-07-04 Thread Stephen Frost
* Chetan Tiwari ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a little perl script that reads CSV files uploaded via a browser and inserts the data into a table in postgres. I'll be happy to share that with you. It's setup to run with active perl and apache on windows, but it would be fairly easy to tweak

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER geocoder question

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Shuo Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm working on a GIS project and trying to use TIGER Geocoder from the refractions website on TIGER data. The two sql files in the Geocoder generated some errors when being loaded, complaining that some tables (gazetteer_places, tiger_geocode_roads,

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER geocoder question

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Frost
uses. Now I can tell from your script. Thank you very much. Sure. Stephen On 6/28/07, Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Shuo Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm working on a GIS project and trying to use TIGER Geocoder from the refractions website on TIGER data. The two

Re: [postgis-users] TIGER geocoder question

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Frost
on the street_type_lookup it bombs, iirc. Is there someone I can work with on improving it? Submit patches to, etc? Or should I just find a way to post what I've done that's not specific to my organization and assume maintenance? Thanks, Stephen On 6/28/07, Stephen Frost [EMAIL

Re: [postgis-users] Re: TIGER geocoder question

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I seem to be able to geocode an address after running your script. A new question I have now is the schema of the result returned from geocode. It seems that a geocoded result may come from one of functions in your script ( e.g., geocode_address_state or