Re: newbie postgis and google maps question

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to PostGIS and this has to be a cakewalk for
> you experienced users, but your help would be greatly appreciated.  I
> have a PostGIS enabled database that contains polygon data from a
> shapefile using SRID 4326.  All I want to do at this point is mark the
> centers of all of my polygons in Google Maps.  I've written my
> query, and it works great:
>
> select astext(centroid(poly))
> from zones
>
> returns (a bunch of):
> POINT(-13057223.7425678 6208110.75868711)
>
> However, I have no idea what to do with this point data.  Google maps
> expects lat and long; how can i convert this?  In another forum a user
> suggested dividing by 10, but that's a point in Northern Canada,  
> this point
> should be in NE Washington State.
>
> Any Help would be greatly appreciated
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