Re: Help creating "corridors"

Luca Bertoncello <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.postgis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 08.02.2025 um 14:11 schrieb Luca Bertoncello:

Hi again

> Now my problem is to create these "corridors", so let's say 20 km left
> and 20 km right of the lines.
> In other words, I need to convert my lines in polygons, then export them
> as GeoJSON.
> 
> And now the very question: how can I create these polygons?

Maybe I got something...

So I create two tables:

CREATE TABLE gafor_points
(
  gafor int,
  position int,
  coords geography(POINT)
);

CREATE TABLE gafor_routes
(
  gafor int,
  route geometry
);

In the first table I inserted the data I drawed with my simple
Javascript script (see last message).
Then I converted them to the geometries:

INSERT INTO gafor_routes (SELECT gafor, ST_MakeLine(coords::geometry)
from gafor_points group by gafor);

and then I create the corridors (example for GAFOR 10):
SELECT gafor, ST_AsGeoJSON(ST_Buffer(route, 0.2, 'endcap=square
join=bevel')) from gafor_routes where gafor = 10;

Now my question: as I said, I'd like to have the corridor 20km left and
20km right of the line.
I got it with the query, usind "0.2" as distance by ST_Buffer, but I got
this value by "try and cry".
Reading the docs, the distance for ST_Buffer is:
------
For geometry, the distance is specified in the units of the Spatial
Reference System of the geometry. For geography, the distance is
specified in meters.
------
Since I use geometry for my route, the unit is the Spatial Reference
System of the geometry.
With the query:

SELECT ST_SRID(route) from gafor_routes where gafor = 10;

I see, the system is 4326.

Now the very big question: how to convert meters in "unit of the Spatial
Reference System"?

I searched for that, but I didn't found the answer...

Thanks a lot for your help!
Luca Bertoncello
([email protected])
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