Re: [postgis-users] drawing a line tangent to earth ?

2018-02-05 Thread Giuseppe Broccolo
Hi Didier, 2018-02-05 16:08 GMT+01:00 didier peeters : > Hi, > > Here’s the problem that puzzles me: > I would like to determine if an object (a building, an antenna, …) can be > seen from a specific point ‘somewhere'. I have to deal with distances > ranging from a few meters to about 200 km or

[postgis-users] ST_Clip on tiled rasters

2018-02-05 Thread J Payne
Hi. I am desperate for advice on a very simple problem. I’ve got an out-of-db raster table that contains a time-series of images of a large area (one image per date), and it is tiled. It’s about 20,000 rows in all and I’m trying to clip it with a polygon so that I get back a smaller raster. 

Re: [postgis-users] drawing a line tangent to earth ?

2018-02-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 2/5/2018 10:08 AM, didier peeters wrote: Hi, Here’s the problem that puzzles me: I would like to determine if an object (a building, an antenna, …) can be seen from a specific point ‘somewhere'. I have to deal with distances ranging from a few meters to about 200 km or so. I have the coo

[postgis-users] drawing a line tangent to earth ?

2018-02-05 Thread didier peeters
Hi, Here’s the problem that puzzles me: I would like to determine if an object (a building, an antenna, …) can be seen from a specific point ‘somewhere'. I have to deal with distances ranging from a few meters to about 200 km or so. I have the coordinates of the viewing point XYZ and the X