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<title>Examples</title>
- <para>For each building, find the parcel that best covers it. The answer will return at most one record per building
-and will return the parcel that it intersects where parts of building that don't intersect the parcel, the furthest part of building is closest to this parcel.</para>
+ <!-- <para>For each building, find the parcel that best covers it. First we prefer the parcel first that completely covers.
+ Then for those that only partially cover we prefer the parcel whose furthest part from the building closer than any other parcel.</para>
<programlisting>SELECT DISTINCT ON(buildings.gid) buildings.gid, parcels.parcel_id
FROM buildings INNER JOIN parcels ON ST_Intersects(buildings.geom,parcels.geom)
- ORDER BY buildings.gid, ST_MaxDistance(buildings.geom, parcels.geom);</programlisting>
+ ORDER BY buildings.gid, ST_MaxDistance(buildings.geom, parcels.geom);</programlisting> -->
<para>Basic furthest distance the point is to any part of the line</para>
<programlisting>postgis=# SELECT ST_MaxDistance('POINT(0 0)'::geometry, 'LINESTRING ( 2 0, 0 2 )'::geometry);
st_maxdistance