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## To convert State Plane to Lat/Lng (WGS 84) ## could also use: http://gitorious.org/tlevine/noaa_post_project/blobs/master/noaa.py but it hits the web brew install postgis brew install gdal # from http://russbrooks.com/2010/11/25/install-postgresql-9-on-os-x # NB: Out of the box, you authenticate against the DB using the same user account under which you ran brew install. #initialize the DB initdb /usr/local/var/postgres # add startup items cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.4/org.postgresql.postgres.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.postgresql.postgres.plist #start Postgres. pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start # confirm that it works psql postgres -c "select 1;" # create spatial db template createdb template_postgis psql -d template_postgis -f /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.4/share/postgresql/contrib/postgis-1.5/postgis.sql psql -d template_postgis -f /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.4/share/postgresql/contrib/postgis-1.5/spatial_ref_sys.sql # create DB based on template createdb -T template_postgis nyclu psql -d nyclu # for every column in header, make a text entry # run that as a command in psql cat CREATE_TABLE.txt | pbcopy # inside psql, paste # create sql dump ogr2ogr -f PGDump sqf_2010.sql 2010.csv # import data psql -d nyclu -f sqf_2010.sql # create a geometry column SELECT AddGeometryColumn ('public','sqf_2010','the_geom',4326,'POINT',2); # populate geom UPDATE "sqf_2010" SET the_geom = ST_Transform(ST_GeomFromText('POINT('|| xcoord ||' ' || ycoord || ')', 2263), 4326) WHERE coalesce(trim(xcoord),'') <> '' AND coalesce(trim(ycoord),'') <> ''; # create index CREATE INDEX idx_2010_the_geom ON "2010" USING GIST ( the_geom ); # create new table with the stuff we want in it create table state_plane_to_latlng as SELECT DISTINCT xcoord, ycoord , ST_x(the_geom) as longitude , ST_y(the_geom) as latitude from "sqf_2010" ORDER BY xcoord, ycoord; # export table to csv COPY state_plane_to_latlng TO '/state_plane_to_latlng.csv' CSV HEADER; # for some reason there's an empty line after the header
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