Hi All,
Pretty excited by the new operators <-> and <#>, but a bit
confused as to how to use them in a query. The two examples from P. Ramsey
back in late 2011 (
http://blog.opengeo.org/2011/09/28/indexed-nearest-neighbour-search-in-postg
is/ ) included doing a KNN on a single point to a cloud of points, i.e.
SELECT name, gid
FROM geonames
ORDER BY geom <-> st_setsrid(st_makepoint(-90,40),4326)
LIMIT 10;
or doing KNN on non-point different geometries, where the first neighbor by
<-> or <#> might not be truly the first i.e.
with index_query as (
select
st_distance(geom, 'SRID=3005;POINT(1011102 450541)') as distance,
parcel_id, address
from parcels
order by geom <#> 'SRID=3005;POINT(1011102 450541)' limit 100
)
select * from index_query order by distance limit 10;
So, how would one grab the first nearest neighbor for all points in a
dataset? This is how I used to do it:
CREATE TABLE n2180_560_height AS
SELECT x, y, height FROM
(SELECT DISTINCT ON(veg.gid) veg.gid as gid, ground.gid as gid_ground, veg.x
as x, veg.y as y, ground.z as z, veg.z - ground.z as height, veg.the_geom as
geometry, veg.class as class
FROM (SELECT * FROM n2180_560 WHERE class = 5) As veg, (SELECT * FROM
n2180_560 WHERE class = 2) As ground
WHERE veg.class = 5 AND veg.gid <> ground.gid AND ST_DWithin(veg.the_geom,
ground.the_geom, 10)
ORDER BY veg.gid, ST_Distance(veg.the_geom,ground.the_geom)) AS vegpoints;
ST_DWithin prevents a full cross join, but is a sloppy way to do this, as it
requires a priori knowledge of the end cases. I'm hoping there's a subquery
or some such magic that would allow me to use the distance operator to a
similar end. .
Thanks,
Best,
Steve
http://www.clemetparks.com/images/esig/cmp-ms-90x122.pngStephen Mather
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Manager
(216) 635-3243
s...@clevelandmetroparks.com
<http://www.clemetparks.com/> clevelandmetroparks.com
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