Re: Geographic coordinate values format conversion to DD (DecimalDegrees) format - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Paul Ramsey
Subject Re: Geographic coordinate values format conversion to DD (DecimalDegrees) format
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Msg-id A6477E50-D8AB-4595-9CBC-19823D7FF5F9@cleverelephant.ca
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In response to Geographic coordinate values format conversion to DD (DecimalDegrees) format  (Allan Kamau <kamauallan@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Geographic coordinate values format conversion to DD (DecimalDegrees) format
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On Dec 4, 2018, at 12:36 PM, Allan Kamau <kamauallan@gmail.com> wrote:

Does PostgreSQL (more specifically PostGIS) have functions for these types of conversions.

Below are examples of the geographic coordinates values I have coupled with the resulting decimal degrees values.
39.529053 N 107.772406 W=    39.5290530°, -107.7724060°
27.485973 S 153.190699 E=    -27.4859730°, 153.1906990°
30°32’39” N, 91°07’36” E=    30.5441667°, 091.1266667°
27.485973 S 153.190699 E=    -27.4859730°, 153.1906990°
1¡20'1N 103¡45'15E=    01.3336111°, 103.7541667°
SELECT st_astext(txt2geometry('S 20 10.8035165 W 176 36.074496'));
=    -20.1800586°, -176.6012416°

The "°" sign in the results is optional.

Nope, you’ve got a big ugly pattern matching problem there, unfortunately, and probably are going to have to regex your way out of the bag. PostGIS will help you output forms like that, but it doesn’t have any general handling of arbitrary DMS strings.


Here’s a PLPGSQL example that does half of your cases.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION txt2geometry(textcoord text)
RETURNS geometry AS 
$$
DECLARE 
textarr text[];
sep text;
lon float8;
lat float8;
BEGIN
textarr := regexp_matches(textcoord, '(\d+)(\D?)(\d{2})\D?([\d\.]+)\D? ([NS]),? (\d+)\D?(\d{2})\D?(\d+)\D? ([EW])');
sep := textarr[2];
RAISE NOTICE '%', textarr;
-- DD.DDDDDD
IF sep = '.' THEN
lat := int4(textarr[1]) + int4(textarr[3]) / 100.0 + float8(textarr[4]) / pow(10, length(textarr[4])) / 100;
lon := int4(textarr[6]) + int4(textarr[7]) / 100.0 + float8(textarr[8]) / pow(10, length(textarr[8])) / 100;
-- DD.MM'SS"
ELSE
lat := int4(textarr[1]) + int4(textarr[3]) / 60.0 + float8(textarr[4]) / pow(10, length(textarr[4])) / 36;
lon := int4(textarr[6]) + int4(textarr[7]) / 60.0 + float8(textarr[8]) / pow(10, length(textarr[8])) / 36;
END IF;
IF textarr[5] = 'S' THEN
lat := -1 * lat;
END IF;
IF textarr[9] = 'W' THEN
lon := -1 * lon;
END IF;
RETURN ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(lon, lat), 4326);
END;
$$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' IMMUTABLE
COST 100;




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