Lines in the database

The first section of this chapter focused on point operations. Now, we will turn our attention to lines. For the following examples, you will create a new table and insert three lines. The following code will accomplish that:

from shapely.geometry import LineStringfrom shapely.geometry import MultiLineStringconnection = psycopg2.connect(database="pythonspatial",user="postgres",        password="postgres")cursor = c.cursor()cursor.execute("CREATE TABLE lines (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, location GEOMETRY)")thelines=[]thelines.append(LineString([(-106.635585,35.086972),(-106.621294,35.124997)]))thelines.append(LineString([(-106.498309,35.140108),(-106.497010,35.069488)]))thelines.append(LineString([(-106.663878,35.106459),(-106.586506,35.103979)])) ...

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