Re: [postgis-users] What coordinate system should I use?

2008-10-02 Thread Doug_Newcomb
Stephen, Australia encompasses UTM zones 49 to 56, http://www.dmap.co.uk/utmworld.htm . If you tried to use UTM zone 53 for everything you would have EXTREME distortion at the edges. You get noticable distortion when you overlap significantly even into adjoining UTM zones. For an are

Re: [postgis-users] What coordinate system should I use?

2008-10-02 Thread Pedro Doria Meunier
Hi Steve, You should look at the problem programmatically. My team and I came to ~less the same problem in the early days of my company (in the FMS area). Our goal was to determine the street name within 20 meters of the vehicle's location as well as getting the nearest POI (also giving its dista

[postgis-users] What coordinate system should I use?

2008-10-01 Thread Stephen Baillie
I've only just come to PostGIS, although I have a bit of PostgreSQL experience, and I'm rapidly being overwhelmed by the volume of choices available. So I thought I'd describe my problem in hopes that more experienced folks could make some useful suggestions: I've got ~1.2 million entities wi