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Re: Select Point near Polyline Postgis

by Rodrigo Martín LÓPEZ GREGORIO-3 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi anhtin

To find the nearest polyline from a table to a point you can do this:

SELECT * FROM mainroad ORDER BY Distance(the_geom,PointFromText('POINT(517651 2121421)')) LIMIT 1

To get the coordinates of the nearest point of that line to your point then you must do:

SELECT *, line_interpolate_point(the_geom,line_locate_point(the_geom,PointFromText('POINT(517651 2121421)'))) FROM mainroad ORDER BY Distance(the_geom,PointFromText('POINT(517651 2121421)')) LIMIT 1

So with the last query you can get all the data (*) of the nearest linestring and the point of the that linestring that is nearest to the given Point.

The way it works is, first the line_locate_point function get the linstring and the point and gives you a value between 0 and 1 representing the location of the closest point on LineString to the given Point, as a fraction of total 2d line length. Then the line_interpolate_point function will take the linestring and the value between 0 and 1 and return a Point geometry with the location of the nearest point on the linestring. If you want to get the X and Y coordinates of that point you can do also X(geometry), Y(geometry):

SELECT *, X(line_interpolate_point(the_geom,line_locate_point(the_geom,PointFromText('POINT(517651 2121421)')))),
Y(line_interpolate_point(the_geom,line_locate_point(the_geom,PointFromText('POINT(517651 2121421)')))) FROM mainroad ORDER BY Distance(the_geom,PointFromText('POINT(517651 2121421)')) LIMIT 1

Rodrigo.

On 6/16/07, anhtin <anhtin@...> wrote:

hi all
I am developing a web application. i am using Mapserver and Postgis
I have a question below
if i want to click one point on map to select the nearest point on the
nearest polyline from the point i clicked. How can i do?
Notes: The point I clicked is converted to X,Y coordinate (295149 2315499)

could you show me the sql command in postgis.
1. How can i select the nearest  polyline on the click point.
2. How can  i select the the nearest point on the selected nearest polyline.
:computer-user:
:rules:

Somebody suggest that I should search the polyline nearest on the click
point by the script below

SELECT * FROM mainroad WHERE GeomFromText('POINT(517651 2121421)', 42102) &&
the_geom
AND distance(the_geom,
GeomFromText('POINT(517651 2121421)', 42102)) < 200000

however,  sometime it has no result because the distance from point to
polyline is larger than 200000.
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