Re: [postgis-users] How does PostGIS treat "garbage" lat/long coords?

2008-04-21 Thread David William Bitner
Stephen, To add to what Paul said, you can also put a constraint on your table with the check to make sure no values outside of the correct range make it into the table in the first place. David On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Paul Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This? > > select id from t

Re: [postgis-users] How does PostGIS treat "garbage" lat/long coords?

2008-04-20 Thread Paul Ramsey
This? select id from thetable where st_xmax(the_geom) > 180 or st_xmin(the_geom) < -180 or st_ymax > 90 or st_ymin < -90; P On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Stephen Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my users has been entering garbage lat/long coordinates for geometries > (SRID 4283).

[postgis-users] How does PostGIS treat "garbage" lat/long coords?

2008-04-20 Thread Stephen Davies
One of my users has been entering garbage lat/long coordinates for geometries (SRID 4283). eg POINT(140.6365441 -304.409527) instead of POINT(140.6365441 -34.409527) PostGIS does not object to this but I cannot see what the value is interpreted to mean. Is there a simple way to test for such en