Re: [GENERAL] PostGIS: Approximating a house number from street address range

2011-10-14 Thread Andy Colson
On 2011-10-12, at 6:31 PM, Andy Colson wrote: On 10/12/2011 06:38 PM, Andy Colson wrote: On 10/12/2011 06:29 PM, Andy Colson wrote: 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 segm

Re: [GENERAL] PostGIS: Approximating a house number from street address range

2011-10-13 Thread René Fournier
Thanks Andy for thinking about this for me. I tried using that function, but get this error: gc3=# SELECT gc3-# ST_AsText(the_geom) as street, strunamefr, l_adddirfg, l_hnumf, l_hnuml, l_stname_c, l_placenam, r_adddirfg, r_hnumf, r_hnuml, r_stname_c, r_placenam, gc3-# ST_Distance(ST_GeomFromText

Re: [GENERAL] PostGIS: Approximating a house number from street address range

2011-10-12 Thread Andy Colson
On 10/12/2011 06:38 PM, Andy Colson wrote: On 10/12/2011 06:29 PM, Andy Colson wrote: 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 an

Re: [GENERAL] PostGIS: Approximating a house number from street address range

2011-10-12 Thread Andy Colson
On 10/12/2011 06:29 PM, Andy Colson wrote: 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 stree

Re: [GENERAL] PostGIS: Approximating a house number from street address range

2011-10-12 Thread Andy Colson
On 10/12/2011 06:29 PM, Andy Colson wrote: 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 stree

Re: [GENERAL] PostGIS: Approximating a house number from street address range

2011-10-12 Thread Andy Colson
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 wa