STintersects() to find the Intersection point - sql-server

I have two sql server geometry-ies which I am using to check if they intersect. If they do I need the intersection point.
Currently I can get only Boolean output where if it intersects = 1 and if it does not intersect it will give =0 . Is there any way I can find the intersection of two shapes in geometry?
Update this question led to my next question concerning how can one check if a point (lat/long) exists in a region which has 4000 points (lat/long). Can one use stcontains or stintersects on geography?
sql - STContains on Geography column

DECLARE #line1 GEOMETRY = geometry::STGeomFromText('LINESTRING(0 0, 1 1)', 0)
DECLARE #line2 GEOMETRY = geometry::STGeomFromText('LINESTRING(1 0, 0 1)', 0)
SELECT #line1.STIntersection(#line2).ToString()

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SQL Server Polygon format

SELECT TOP 1 KMLLocation FROM Polygon
Result: 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
SELECT TOP 1 KMLLocation .ToString() FROM Polygon
Result:
POLYGON ((79.994044 6.437211, 79.996086 6.438176, 80.006796 6.445634, 80.013995 6.456849...
Expected Result:
POLYGON ((6.437211 79.994044, 6.438176 79.996086, 6.445634 80.006796, 6.456849, 80.013995...
How do I swap Lat and Long from geography polygon?
Here's what I came up with:
DECLARE #g GEOGRAPHY = /* your hex representation from above */
#new VARCHAR(MAX);
WITH points AS (
SELECT #g.STPointN(n.n) AS p, n
FROM tempdb.dbo.Numbers AS n
WHERE n <= #g.STNumPoints()
)
SELECT #new = CONCAT('POLYGON((', (
SELECT STRING_AGG(CONCAT(p.Lat, ' ', p.Long), ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY p.n)
FROM points AS p
), '))')
SELECT geography::STGeomFromText(#new, #g.STSrid).ReorientObject();
It's pretty straightforward. I'm creating a common table expression (CTE) to decompose the existing polygon into its constituent corners using a numbers (or tally) table. All that is is a table with one column with integers from 1 to some large number. It's helpful for cases like this. From there, I'm swapping the latitude and longitude of the points and then re-assembling them into the WKT for the polygon. Lastly, I'm creating an actual geography instance from the WKT. Note - I'm calling ReorientObject() as the new polygon appears to suffer from a ring orientation problem insofar as it defined the whole globe with a small hole in it (the shape of your polygon).

Find the points using Oracle spatial directly in front of a polgon

I have many polygons and many points and want to find the point such that when a line is drawn between that point and the polygon it does not intersect with any other polygon. So basically I need a point that is very close to the polygon and no other polygon is between them.
I tried the following query and it gives me all the points whether or not they are being intersected by a polygon or not.
SELECT P.POINTLOC from pointTable P WHERE NOT MDSYS.SDO_OVERLAPBDYINTERSECT(P.POINTLOC," +
"MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003,null,null,MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1003,1)," +
"MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(4, 226, 150, 254, 164, 240, 191, 212, 176,4,226))) = 'TRUE'";
Then I tried this query and it gives some correct points but miss a few correct points:
SELECT P.POINTLOC from pointTable P WHERE MDSYS.SDO_WITHIN_DISTANCE(P.POINTLOC," +
"MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003,null,null,MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1003,1)," +
"MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(4, 226, 150, 254, 164, 240, 191, 212, 176,4,226)),'distance = 40') = 'TRUE'";
Can some one point out which Oracle spatial operator would be best suited for this situation?
It sounds like you're looking for a Nearest Neighbour implementation - Oracle provides the Spatial operator SDO_NN.
You can find more details here:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SPATL/sdo_operat.htm#SPATL1032
This will only get you so far, in that it'll find the nearest point to a polygon, but it won't guarantee that there are no polygons between your point and your target polygon. I suspect if you want to ensure this, you'll have have to get creative.
My approach would be:
use SDO_NN to get the closest point or points
use SDO_GEOM.SDO_CENTROID to find the polygon centre of gravity
create an in-query/in-memory SDO_GEOMETRY line that joins the two points
use this as the basis of a NOT EXISTS clause to exclude points where a polygon intersects that line
Something like the following untested / not-quite finished example, perhaps:
SELECT *
FROM points pnt
WHERE sdo_nn(pnt.point, sdo_geometry(your polygon here)) = 'TRUE' -- fill this with your polygon
AND NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM polygons plg
WHERE sdo_geom.sdo_intersection(
plg.polygon
, sdo_geometry(
2002
, NULL -- oracle srid
, NULL -- point
, sdo_elem_info_array(1, 2, 1) -- line
, sdo_ordinate_array(
, sdo_geom.sdo_centroid(
sdo_geometry(your polygon here) -- fill this with your polygon
, 0.05
).x
, sdo_geom.sdo_centroid(
sdo_geometry(your polygon here) -- fill this with your polygon
, 0.05 -- tolerance
).t
, pnt.point.sdo_point.x
, pnt.point.sdo_point.y
) -- line between point and polygon centroid
)
, 0.05 -- tolerance
) = 'TRUE'
)
Depending on your dataset/performance, you might want to do some of this in PL/SQL using collections or loops.
The example above is a bit rough and ready, but I hope you get the gist.

Can't get a simple Entity Framework spatial query to work

This query on my sql server returns lots of rows:
declare #referencepoint Geography = Geography::Point(48.208173, 16.373813, 4326);
SELECT *
FROM myTable
WHERE Location.STDistance(#referencepoint) < 20000
but the equivalent in EF returns none:
DbGeography referencepoint = DbGeography.PointFromText("POINT(48.208173 16.373813)", 4326);
var records = (from r in db.myTable
where r.Location.Distance(referencepoint ) <= 20000
select r).ToList();
Looking at the query generated via profiler I see this:
declare #p3 sys.geography
set #p3=convert(sys.geography,0xE6100000010CD4D17135B25F30408274B169A51A4840)
SELECT *
FROM [myTable]
WHERE ([Location].STDistance(#p3)) <= 20000
Does EF have an issue here, or do I?
OP has the issue here :) Both SQL and EF are working as expected. OP's statement was incorrect.
SQL Point Syntax:
declare #referencepoint Geography = Geography::Point(48.208173, 16.373813, 4326);
is actually equivalent to .Net:
DbGeography referencepoint = DbGeography.PointFromText("POINT(16.373813 48.208173)", 4326);
// Note the parameters are reversed from OP's statement
In SQL and EF (.Net) the Geography data type uses a standard WellKnownText notation to define points and polygons and other structures internally.
In WellKnownText format a Point is specified as POINT(X Y) on a Cartesian plane.
- Note the lack of a comma, the values are only delimited by a space
When we want to express the location on the earth as a point on a Cartesian plane, the X axis is the equator, the Y axis is then a Meridian line running between the North and South Poles.
Longitute, by definition is the east-west position on the surface of the Earth (so parallel with the equator, the X ordinate)
Latitude, by definition is the north-south position on the surface of the Earth (perpendicular to the equator, the Y ordinate)
Therefore to express a Point on the earth in WellKnownText format as if it were a point on a Cartesian plane we must use this syntax:
POINT(Longitude Latitude)
What confuses the issue is that in most verbal and written forms we refer to Latitude and Longitude in that order, so in SQL we have a helper function that takes the parameters in that order, because this was supposed to make it less confusing. And in a way it is, because the parameters are named appropriately. To further explain the point I have expanded out OP's statements with the correction
SQL
DECLARE #latitude float = 48.208173
DECLARE #longitude float = 16.373813
DECLARE #srid int = 4326
DECLARE #referencepoint Geography = Geography::Point(#latitude, #longitude, #srid);
SELECT *
FROM myTable
WHERE Location.STDistance(#referencepoint) < 20000
.Net
double latitude = 48.208173;
double longitude = 16.373813;
int srid = 4326;
DbGeography referencepoint = DbGeography.PointFromText($"POINT({longitude} {latitude})", srid);
var records = (from r in db.myTable
where r.Location.Distance(referencepoint) <= 20000
select r).ToList();
I can't even find a good reference explaining why we generally refer to Latitude and Longitude (in that order) I suspect it's based on the fact that LatLon rolls off the tongue better or because latitude was discovered/measured first?

SQL Server Spatial Query: where condition behaving «oddly»

I've realized this «silly» spatial query to find all the points that lie 5Km far form a center.
Source table holds +150K rows.
Here the query:
DECLARE #position geography = geography::Parse('POINT(9.123 45.123)')
DECLARE #circle geography = #position.STBuffer(5000) -- A circle of 5Km of radius
SELECT
g.Coordinate.STDistance(#position), g.Coordinate.Filter(#circle)
FROM
[DB_NAME].[SCHEMA].[TABLE] AS g WITH (nolock)
WHERE
g.Coordinate.Filter(#circle) = 1
I oddly observe that the WHERE condition doesn't work: in fact I retrieve even +600 points where the condition returns 0.
Any suggestions?
For the sake of clarity table schema was
[DB_NAME].[SCHEMA].[TABLE](Coordinate geography NOT NULL)
Official documentation states: «Returns 1 if a geography instance potentially intersects another geography instance. This method may produce a false-positive return, and the exact result may be plan-dependent. Returns an accurate 0 value (true negative return) if there is no intersection of geography instances found.»
So I mean that 0 is always ok, while 1 could be approximated (IMHO this behaviour is absolutely reasonable)
By the way #Damien observation lead me to simply work around:
DECLARE #position geography = geography::Parse('POINT(9.123 45.123)')
DECLARE #circle geography = #position.STBuffer(5000) -- A circle of 5Km of radius
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT
g.Coordinate.Filter(#circle) filter, g.Coordinate Coord
FROM [DB_NAME].[SCHEMA].[TABLE] AS g WITH (nolock)
WHERE
g.Coordinate.Filter(#circle) = 1
) t
WHERE t.filter = 1
that recalls me the «Double Check Pattern» esoterism… but in that case It's clear the motivation.
One point that could be more investigated is about the return value conversion… Many years ago I stumbled upon on a similar issue where in a server farm an implicit conversion of a boolean tre to int led to -1 (0xFFFFFFFF) instead of 1 (0x00000001)… COM ages…

Point on a polygon boundary using postgis & geodjango

I have point data and multipolygon data in tables. How can I find points lying on multipolygon boundary using postgis and in geodjango?
I can't help you with geodjango, but I can give you a PostGIS query.
SELECT ST_Contains(ST_Boundary(ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON((1 1,0 0, -1 1, 1 1))')),
ST_GeomFromText(points.g))
FROM UNNEST(ARRAY['POINT(1 1)', 'POINT(0 1)']) points (g)
The key is to use ST_Boundary to get the polygon's boundary and check if that contains the point.
You can just use PostGIS SQL I guess:
SELECT points,area from points_table,area WHERE
area_geometry && points
AND ST_Contains(area_geometry,points)
Use ST_Covers it contains own boundary. But be careful in that case one point can be included by many (multi)polygons.
SELECT ST_Covers(ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON((1 1,0 0, -1 1, 1 1))'),
ST_GeomFromText(points.g))
FROM UNNEST(ARRAY['POINT(1 1)', 'POINT(0 1)', 'POINT(0 0.5)']) points (g)

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