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
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
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