[OSM-talk] lat and lon in the db

[Jorge Gustavo]

Hi Kenneth,

As Tom already said, you probably used osm2pgsql and those coordinates 
are in the SRID EPSG:900913. You can/should confirm it by quering the 
geometry_columns table. osm2pgsql fills the table automatically.

You should see something like:

320028;"''";"public";"planet_osm_line";"way";2;900913;"LINESTRING"
320017;"''";"public";"planet_osm_point";"way";2;900913;"POINT"
320039;"''";"public";"planet_osm_polygon";"way";2;900913;"GEOMETRY"
320049;"''";"public";"planet_osm_roads";"way";2;900913;"LINESTRING"

In PostGIS, you can change coordinates doing st_transform.
Example:
Select astext(ST_transform(st_geometryfromtext('POINT(864071554 
145921624)',900913),4326));

Regards,

Jorge

On 27-07-2011 09:08, kenneth gonsalves wrote:
> hi,
>
> on querying the db, I get the lat and lon of a particular place as:
>
> lat 145921624 lon 864071554
>
> but the map shows the correct figures:
>
> lat 12.9954832  lon 77.6208684
>
> can anyone explain this?