[postgis-users] Adding Spatial Index to Existing Table

[Adam]

I tried: UPDATE locations SET point_geom = SetSRID(makepoint('longitude','latitude'), 4326);
but got this error:
ERROR:  invalid input syntax for type double precision: "longitude"Could the problem be that my "longitude" column is type "Character Varying"?----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brad Ediger 
  To: PostGIS Users Discussion 
  Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 1:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Adding Spatial Index to Existing Table


  If your lat/longs are WGS84, you should be able to say:



  UPDATE table SET location = SetSRID(MakePoint(Long,Lat), 4326);


  That should update all points in one statement, and set the proper SRID.


  Brad


  On Dec 29, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Adam wrote:


    This is my first try at adding spatial to my table.  Currently I have a 'Lat' and 'Long' columns that have my Latitiude and Longitude.

    Do I need to add another column named 'Location' and insert each rows 'Lat' and 'Long' into the corresponding 'Location' row by doing:  "INSERT INTO table ( Location ) VALUES ( GeometryFromText('Point xx.xxx yy.yyyy', 4326) )" ?  This will assume WGS 84 datum.

    Is this right?
    _______________________________________________
    postgis-users mailing list
    postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
    http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users




------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  _______________________________________________
  postgis-users mailing list
  postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
  http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-users/attachments/20061229/98c1cc51/attachment.html>