On 10/12/2011 01:01 PM, René Fournier wrote:
Hi,I'm developing a reverse-geocoder for Canada. So far, given a lat/lng, I can find the nearest street (line segment), which includes line segment direction and address ranges for both sides of the street. I'm now trying to figure out the best way to programmatically approximate the nearest house number to the given lat/lng point. Here's an example of a row containing the street data: -[ RECORD 1 ]- [...] l_adddirfg | Same Direction l_hnumf | 3219 l_hnuml | 3235 l_stname_c | Breen Road North-west r_adddirfg | Same Direction r_hnumf | 3224 r_hnuml | 3236 r_stname_c | Breen Road North-west the_geom | 0105000020E610000001000000010200000002000000B0F6990E78885CC088DF2B5F3C8C49400875B39A89885CC0A0BCA6AC4B8C4940 So, given a lat/lng coordinate that lies near the "the_geom" line segment, a person could tell visually which side of the street the point is on (left or right side), and how far along the segment it is -- thereby approximating a house number. For example, if the point lies on the right side, three-quarters down the street, I would use the fields r_hnumf (right side, first number) and r_hnuml (right side, last number)... The street address is probably close to: 3232 Breen Road North-west What I'm looking for is a best practice in either computing/approximating this in PostGIS (which I'm new to), or in the application layer once the row is fetched. Any ideas? Thanks! ...Rene
Is this the only format you have the data in? If you had two rectangles (one for each side of the street), and each rect had an address, this would be a lot simpler. Is that geom a line? rectangle? Do you have a layer that has lots or parcels? -Andy -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
