On 5/23/2014 9:58 AM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
I'll try this after putting out a few new fires! mylat and mylon are WKT?


SELECT poi.label, ST_Distance(geom, 'POINT(-74.0 42.0)'::geometry) AS dist
     FROM poi
     ORDER BY dist ASC LIMIT 4;

You might also need to deal with SRID if you have them defined for your poi table. Then you might need:

'SRID=4326;POINT(-74.0 42.0)'::geometry

or you can do something like:

st_setsrid(st_makepoint(-74.0, 42.0), 4326)

-Steve


Thanks!
gerry


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    SELECT poi.label, ST_Distance(MakePoint(lon, lat), MakePoint(mylon,
    mylat)) AS dist

          FROM poi
          ORDER BY dist ASC LIMIT 4;

    -- or --

    SELECT poi.label, ST_Distance(geom, MakePoint(mylon, mylat)) AS dist

          FROM poi
          ORDER BY dist ASC LIMIT 4;

    where mylon, and mylat are you arbitray point locations.

    -Steve


    On 5/23/2014 9:46 AM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:

        The inherent problem is that the point will be arbitrarily
        specified. I
        need to find the 4 points in the table 'sites' (it has label,
        geom, and
        lat, lon columns) closest to an arbitrary point given a lat/lon
        coordinate pair.

        Or, am I making this harder than I think I am?

        Thanks!
        gerry


        On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Micha Silver <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>
        <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:

             Use ORDER BY and LIMIT 4 to get the nearest 4 points:
             Assuming your point table is called poi, and it has a
        'geom' column,
             and a 'label' column, and "lon' and 'lat' give the
        coordinates of
             the starting location, then
             SELECT poi.label, ST_Distance(poi.geom, MakePoint(lon,
        lat)) AS dist
             FROM poi
             ORDER BY dist ASC LIMIT 4;



             On 22-May-14 11:47 PM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:

                 I need to query a rather smallish database and return 4
            points
                 closest to a lat/lon (or lon/lat, if you prefer)
            statement. I've
                 been off-line from PostGIS and my skills are worse than
            rusty
                 right now...

                 Thanks
                 Gerry
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