I am not sure I understand what you get and what you expect. Is your input point inside the polygon?
Regards Nicklas On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 20:10 +0100, Dave Potts wrote: > just tried a > > select st_closestpoint(poly,point) and got the result point > > The point is within a the closed polygon poly, the version is postgis 2.0 > is there any sane reason why this behave in this manner. I had expected > to the value of the x/y coordinate pair from the polylgon that is nearest > to point, not the value of point! > > Any suggestions as what I might be doing wrong? or an suggestions for a > better way of doing this? > > regards > > > Dave. > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
