Spatial indexes are data structures the support searches and computation that depend on geometric relationships between the stored data (k-nearest-neighbors, identify elements in a defined region, etc). Use this tag for questions about selecting, writing, or using spatial indexes in your code, including the use of spatial indexes in database management systems.
Questions tagged [spatial-index]
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Index for fast point-(> 100.000.000)-in-polygon-(> 10.000)-test
Problem
I'm working with openstreetmap-data and want to test for point-features in which polygon they lie. In total there are 10.000s of polygons and 100.000.000 of points. I can hold all this data in memory. The polygons usually have 1000s of…

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2D spatial index optimized for queries of multiple regions
I have a search space of a large number of axis-aligned boxes. A normal spatial index, like an r-tree, will rapidly give me a list of boxes that overlap one search area.
However, I have a large number (hundreds) of potentially overlapping search…

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JTS with lat/lon
I'm having some spatial data that has all of its coordinates as lat/lon pairs (with about 10 digits decimal precision), it's stored in a database as WGS84 data.Some of the data is represented as polygons which are the resulting union of some smaller…

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Spatial lucene simple query doesn't work?
does anyone have any experiences using the lucene's spatial search component (lucene 3.0)?
I tried a very simple example but could not get the search to return anything, see below for all the codes
import java.io.IOException;
import…

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SQL Server Spatial Query Performs Poorly at Low Zoom Levels
The following query performs very well at higher zoom levels (bounding box smaller than 2 degrees longitude by 0.5 degrees latitude, but degrades significantly as the bounding box gets larger. The table contains 7~8 million rows of text and…

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Basic Select on table with lots of rows is very slow
I am currently setting up sql server and geoserver in order to render my own Maps using openlayers on the client web browser. The issue i'm running into is that my SQL Server database contains TONS of roads( every road in texas ) and a simple…

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postgresql query with ST_GeomFromText not working
I am trying to execute the Postgres query:
SELECT a.a_geom
FROM a
WHERE
ST_within(a.a_geom::geometry,ST_GeomFromText('Polygon((1,1),(4,1),(4,4),(4,1))'));
but this query gives error :
ERROR: parse error - invalid geometry
SQL state: XX000
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SQL Server 2012 nearest neighbor
I have a very simple table structure which is using spatial data:
CREATE TABLE Test
(
[ID] int not null,
[GeoLocation] geometry not null,
CONSTRAINT [PK_Test] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[ID] ASC
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mysql MBRWithin() with multiple points
As i ask before where col in() clause for geometry column in mysql
i have a lot of Point in my table and i want to find multiple points from my table by one query, someone suggest that use MBRWithin() or MBRContains() geospatial functions in MySQL,…

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Sql Server Geometry Column causing query to take long time to run
I have written a query to fetch the polygon data from Sql database.
I have following query to fetch the results.
SELECT ZIP,
NAME,
STABB,
AREA,
TYPE,
orgZc.OrganizationId,
orgZc.[ZipCode] AS ORGzip,
…

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MongoDB $near returns duplicate records
Event Schema:
Name:String,
Description: String,
Location:[
ll:[long,lat]
type: String (source,destination)
],
CreatedDate:Date,
UpdatedDate:Date,
Example of a document:
{
Name : 'Test1',
…

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JSI RTree implementation "contains" method giving incorrect results?
I am trying to use the JSI RTree implementation https://github.com/aled/jsi to index geo locations for my application. I load it up with about 7M entries and then I query it using the contains method with a bounding box around the states of…

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SSMS won't let me create spatial index in SQL Server 2012
I have already created a spatial index on table FOO, which is working properly, and now I'm trying to create an identical spatial index on table BAR.
Table BAR:
id int pk autoincrement,
geo geography,
lat float,
lon float,
someOtherValue int
The…

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Whats the metric used in MYSQL Spatial?
I am trying to determine the metric system for MySQL Spatial 5.6.12.
For example, I have the following table that created to store point geometry for multiple records.
CREATE TABLE POINTS_DATA(
RECORD_ID INT(15),
STREET_ADDRESS …

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Java writing/reading unserializable objects to/from file
I am using JSI (Java Spatial Index, RTree) to implement 2D spatial search. I want to save the tree to file, which triggered java.io.NotSerializableException using code below.
public class GeographicIndexer {
private static final Logger log =…

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