There's no FROMWGS parameter, TOWGS is all that's needed, as far as I know. Problem may be that the coordinates you are using have a longitude (37.xxxx) not inside Italy (actually they apper to be somewhere in southern Russia near the Georgia border). If you do the insert/select using coordinates like: 9.13953463591601 45.66405322544534
it should work as expected. Bye Paolo Rizzi > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] conto di > Ludovico Bianchini > Inviato: martedì 4 settembre 2007 16.02 > A: PostGIS Users Discussion > Oggetto: Re: R: [postgis-users] precision of GeomFromTex,Transform and > text functions > > > Thanks for the suggestion, actually there were not the > toWGS parameter in spatial_ref_sys table. > > The situation seems to be a little better (here a > sequence of insert-select: > Insert:37.13953463591601 45.66405322544534 > Select:37.1321637582786 45.6647731135686 > > Insert:37.1321637582786 45.6647731135686 > Select:37.1248123607135 45.6654908577754 > > Insert:37.1248123607135 45.6654908577754 > Select:37.1174803443424 45.6662064695791), but the > error is still too big. > > I have this question: is there a parameter simmetric > to TOWGS? If so the project library shall use FROMWGS > to convert from the gps system and TOWGS to convert to > the gps system. > Sorry if the question is stupid, but I don't > understand how to solve this problem (to convert gps > (SRID=4326) to West Gauss Boaga Italy Rome Monte Mario > (SRID=26591 or 3003). > > Any help will be very appreciated!!! > > Ludovico > > > --- P.Rizzi Ag.Mobilità Ambiente > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > I forget to mention the fact that inside the PostGIS > > spatial_ref_sys > > table, TOWGS parameters are missing for EPSG:26591 > > and for 3003 too. > > So any transform will not be precise in any case. > > To add parameters for EPSG:3003, you can use the > > following SQL > > in any DB that you need to. > > > > Bye > > Paolo Rizzi > > > > > > --- > > --- To add TOWGS parameters, if needed, to: > > --- > > --- EPSG 3003 : Monte Mario / Italy zone 1 > > --- > > --- If parameters are already present, no change > > will take place. > > --- > > UPDATE "spatial_ref_sys" SET > > "srtext"='PROJCS["Monte Mario / Italy zone > > 1",GEOGCS["Monte > > Mario",DATUM["Monte_Mario",SPHEROID["International > > > 1924",6378388,297,AUTHORITY["EPSG","7022"]],TOWGS84[-104.1,-49 > .1,-9.9,0.971,-2.917,0.714,-11.68],AUTHORITY["EPSG","6265"]],P > RIMEM["Greenwich",0,AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],UNIT["degree",0. > 01745329251994328,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],AUTHORITY["EPSG"," > 4265"]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["latitude_ > of_origin",0],PARAMETER["central_meridian",9],PARAMETER["scale > _factor",0.9996],PARAMETER["false_easting",1500000],PARAMETER[ > "false_northing",0],UNIT["metre",1,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],A > UTHORITY["EPSG","3003"]]' > > WHERE "srid"=3003 AND "auth_name"='EPSG' AND > > "srtext" NOT LIKE '%TOWGS%'; > > > > UPDATE "spatial_ref_sys" SET > > "proj4text"='+proj=tmerc +lat_0=0 +lon_0=9 > > +k=0.999600 +x_0=1500000 +y_0=0 +ellps=intl +units=m > > +no_defs > > > +towgs84=-104.1,-49.1,-9.9,0.971,-2.917,0.714,-11.68' > > WHERE "srid"=3003 AND "auth_name"='EPSG' AND > > "proj4text" NOT LIKE '%towgs%'; > > > > > > > > > > > -----Messaggio originale----- > > > Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > conto di > > > P.Rizzi Ag.Mobilità Ambiente > > > Inviato: martedì 4 settembre 2007 11.25 > > > A: PostGIS Users Discussion > > > Oggetto: R: [postgis-users] precision of > > > GeomFromTex,Transform and text > > > functions > > > > > > > > > Probably it does not matter to you in this case, > > > but EPSG:26591 has been deprecated in favour of > > EPSG:3003. > > > There is an error (can't remember what) in 26591. > > > > > > Bye > > > Paolo Rizzi > > > > > > > > > > -----Messaggio originale----- > > > > Da: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > conto di > > > > Ludovico Bianchini > > > > Inviato: lunedì 3 settembre 2007 21.39 > > > > A: postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > > > > Oggetto: [postgis-users] precision of > > GeomFromTex,Transform and text > > > > functions > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm using this postgis function: > > > > - GeomFromText(text, int4) to create a geometry > > value > > > > in 4326 spatial_ref_sys > > > > - Transform(geometry, int4) to convert a > > geometry from > > > > 4326 to 26591 when I'm inserting a record and to > > > > convert 26591 to 4326 when I'm selecting records > > > > - text(geometry) to convert the geometry column > > in a > > > > human-readable string > > > > > > > > The problem is that the operations are not > > precise: > > > > the value I obtain via > > text(transorm(geom_column, > > > > 4326)) is different from what I inserted via > > > > Transform(GeomFromText('POINT(' || $10 || ')', > > 4326), > > > > 26591). > > > > > > > > Here an example (lon-lat values separated by a > > space): > > > > Insert:37.13953463591601 45.66405322544534 > > > > Select:37.1321614399253 45.6647733181425 > > > > > > > > Insert:37.1321614399253 45.6647733181425 > > > > Read:37.1248077366115 45.6654912656918 > > > > > > > > Insert:37.1248077366115 45.6654912656918 > > > > Read:37.1174734269995 45.6662070796171 > > > > > > > > Is this a 'normal' behaviour? > > > > Am I omitting anything? > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any help!! > > > > > > > > Bye, > > > > Ludovico > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________ > > > > L'email della prossima generazione? 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