All, FYI...

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> From: "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <[email protected]>
> Date: March 16, 2012 6:49:58 PM PDT
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: A GIS contains() for Hive?
> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Over in the SIS community [1], eventually writing a driver for Hive or HBase 
> to have spatial
> support a la PostGIS is something that we've wanted to get around to, but 
> haven't yet. The 
> goal of SIS is to be an ALv2 licensed spatial toolkit, with no surprises [2]. 
> If you are interested
> in contributing to the SIS community and helping out, I'd certainly 
> appreciate it. As would I
> appreciate anyone in the HIVE community that has time to help us write the 
> HIVE driver for SIS.
> We currently have the ability to support point/radius and bbox QuadTree based 
> searches, and
> the loading of GeoRSS data into the QuadTree index.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/sis/
> [2] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SpatialProposal/
> 
> On Mar 16, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Tim Robertson wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I need to perform a lot of "point in polygon" checks and want to use Hive 
>> (currently I mix Hive, Sqoop and PostGIS in an Oozie workto do this).
>> 
>> In an ideal world, I would like to create a Hive table from a Shapefile 
>> containing polygons, and then do the likes of the following:
>> 
>>  SELECT p.id, pp.id FROM points p, polygons pp WHERE pp.contains(geom, 
>> toPoint(p.lat,p.lng)) 
>> 
>> Has anyone done anything along these lines?
>> 
>> Alternatively I am capable of doing a UDF that would read the shape file 
>> into memory and basically do a map side join using something like a slab 
>> decomposition technique.  It is more limited but would meet my needs 
>> allowing e.g.:
>> 
>>  SELECT contains(p.lat,p.lng, '/data/shapefiles/countries.shp') FROM points;
>> 
>> Before I start I thought I'd ask folks as I suspect people are doing this 
>> kind of thing on Hive by now (thinking FB and user profiling by political 
>> boundaries etc)
>> 
>> I'd love to hear from anyone who's investigated this or could provide any 
>> advice.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Tim
>> 
> 
> 
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> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
> Senior Computer Scientist
> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
> Email: [email protected]
> WWW:   http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
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> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: [email protected]
WWW:   http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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