Top "Geospatial" questions

pertaining to the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on, above, or below the earth's surface; esp.

Calculating bounding box a certain distance away from a lat/long coordinate in Java

Given a coordinate (lat, long), I am trying to calculate a square bounding box that is a given distance (e.…

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how to convert between degrees, minutes, seconds to Decimal coordinates

Looking for a java utility. It is even better if you can tell me how to do it using geotools …

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Java double vs BigDecimal for latitude/longitude

When storing latitudes/longitudes which are typically of the format: 44.087585 (i.e. max 2 numbers before the dot and 6dp) do …

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How to store geospatial information in mongoDB

Acording to the mongoDB documentation (link) if you want to store geospatial information in a document field, you have two …

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Detecting whether a GPS coordinate falls within a polygon on a map

As stated in the title, the goal is to have a way for detecting whether a given GPS coordinate falls …

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Check if a geopoint with latitude and longitude is within a shapefile

How can I check if a geopoint is within the area of a given shapefile? I managed to load a …

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Python, GEOS and Shapely on Windows 64

When trying to install Shapely on my Windows 64bit computer, I cannot get the GEOS library to work. So far, …

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Querying within longitude and latitude in MySQL

Before asking for specific code examples, I just wanted to ask whether it is possible to make a query something …

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How to calculate the area of a polygon on the earth's surface using python?

The title basically says it all. I need to calculate the area inside a polygon on the Earth's surface using …

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MySQL INSERT/UPDATE on POINT column

I'm trying to populate my DB with geographical places of my country. One of my tables have 4 fields: ID[PK], …

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