If the point is inside the polygon, the distance between them is 0.
Can't get closer than that!
You may want to try ST_ClosestPoint(ST_Boundary(poly), point)
On 10/5/2012 12:10 PM, 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.
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