Thanks to Schuyler and Rich Gibson, I now have a spatially aware postgres database.<\/p>\n
Later today, thanks to Schuyler and zool, I’ll have a copy of Mapping Hacks, and a bluetooth GPS.<\/p>\n
Last night, I learned how to use centroid(), astext(), and distance_spheroid(), and calculated the distance from my house to zool’s house, and from there to Darwin’s, where I ate lunch and used the wireless yesterday. I loaded some data, learned the frustration of having data in different projections, and learned a little bit about the various types of geometry. I loaded data from an ESRI shapefile. I found that “” in Postgres is equivilant to “ in mysql — that is, “GEOMETRY” means ‘the value from column Geometry’, not ‘GEOMETRY’, which is the literal. (If you ever get “Error: column “Foo” does not exist, that might be a good thing to check.) <\/p>\n
Last night, I made my first foray into spatial databases. <\/p>\n
Last night, I took control of space on my machine.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, I take control of space in the world!<\/p>\n
But today, I need to work on things that I’m actually paid for at the moment. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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