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List:       postgis-users
Subject:    Re: [postgis] distance...
From:       Dave Blasby <dblasby () refractions ! net>
Date:       2001-11-29 17:41:41
Message-ID: 3C067355.8674EB93 () refractions ! net
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Brenn Erik wrote:
> Yes you can. You can use the PostGIS StartPoint() function to find the
> starting point of each line. Then you can feed the start points to the
> distance() function.

Right - 

	distance(FirstPoint(l1), FirstPoint(l2) )

(there's also a LastPoint() function)

dave

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