> unfortunately it does not work as expected, since I have always many > many many little areas... > > Any other idea?
Are you sure you're getting a combined multigeometry before applying buffer+-? All small polygons which you expect to be aggregated into one should be in one geometry (one row) before doing buffering. 1. Increase buffer size. 2. ST_ConvexHull, ST_ConcaveHull. Here is a working forest aggregation routine. create table gen_forest as select nextval('gen_forest_seq') AS id ,0::bigint AS way_area ,10 AS res ,ST_CollectionExtract(unnest(ST_ClusterWithin(way, 10)), 3)::geometry(MultiPolygon, 3857) as way from planet_osm_polygon where landuse = 'forest'; delete from gen_forest where st_area(st_buffer(way, -10)) < 10 and res = 10; update gen_forest set way = st_makevalid(st_multi(st_simplifypreservetopology(st_buffer(st_buffer(way, 10, 'quad_segs=1'), -10, 'quad_segs=1'), 10))) where res = 10; update gen_forest set way_area = st_area(way) where res = 10; -- Tomas _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users