Hi, I was wondering if any one could possibly offer some advice.
I am wanting to calculate the area for a minimum bounding rectangle for individual polygon features. I know I can use st_envelope or st_extent along with st_area but this doesn't quite give me the results I am after. For example if the polygon was already a rectangle but was orientated on an angle the bounding box area is much larger than the area of the original rectangle, whereas I would like it to be the same value. I suppose what I am after is a convex hull but as a rectangle. Is this possible? Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers Madison _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
