Thanks,

I’m using the technique described at 
http://blog.mathieu-leplatre.info/drape-lines-on-a-dem-with-postgis.html

What would be small tiles in this context? 256x256? The raster I was testing 
against was ~1200x1200.

-ra

On 27 Aug 2014, at 16:19, Pierre Racine <[email protected]> wrote:

> Elevation profile should be quite fast depending on how you tile your raster 
> coverage. Smaller tiles make computation faster. Index them and make sure 
> your query is actually using the index.
> 
> Pierre
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:postgis-users-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rasmus Aveskogh
>> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 4:10 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [postgis-users] Elevation profiles from rasters
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> How hard/feasible would it be to implement elevation profile/drape line
>> functionality in PostGIS? Since PostGIS already depends on GDAL I assume
>> making use of the GDAL API would make this quite easy, such as in the Zoo-
>> Project service:
>> 
>> http://www.zoo-project.org/trac/browser/trunk/zoo-project/zoo-
>> services/gdal/profile/service.c
>> 
>> Providing functionality that could eventually be used for applications like:
>> http://www.zoo-project.org/site/ZooWebSite/Demo/GdalProfile (using the
>> code above)
>> 
>> I'm currently using an ad-hoc PostGIS-function to pull out elevation profiles
>> from my rasters, but it's quite slow and CPU intensive and as such does not
>> make a good fit as a backend service for a web application like the above.
>> 
>> -ra
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