-- The fire marshal wants a list of sensitive areas within a five-mile -- radius of a hazardous waste site. -- The sensitive areas are stored in the sensitive_areas table -- created below. The zone column is defined as a polygon and stores -- the outline of the sensitive areas. CREATE TABLE sensitive_areas (id integer, name varchar(128), size float, type varchar(10), zone ST_Polygon); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES( 1, 'Johnson County Hospital', 102281.91, 'hospital', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((22000 45000,22000 58000,28000 58000,28000 42000,25000 42000,25000 45000,22000 45000))',1000) ); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES( 2, 'Rydale Nursing Home', 53926.54, 'nursing hm', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((22000 18000,28000 18000,28000 12000,22000 12000,22000 18000))',1000) ); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES( 3, 'Summerhill Elementary School', 67920.64, 'school', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((42000 18000,48000 18000,48000 13000,42000 13000,42000 18000))',1000) ); -- The hazardous sites are stored in the hazardous_sites table created -- with the CREATE TABLE statement that follows. The location column, -- defined as a point, stores the geographic center of each hazardous site. CREATE TABLE hazardous_sites (site_id integer, name varchar(128), location ST_Point); INSERT INTO hazardous_sites VALUES( 102, 'W. H. Kleenare Chemical Repository', ST_PointFromText('point (7000 47000)',1000) ); INSERT INTO hazardous_sites VALUES( 59, 'Landmark Industrial', ST_PointFromText('point (48000 39000)',1000) ); -- The query returns a list of sensitive area and hazardous site names -- for sensitive areas that intersect the five-mile buffer radius -- of the hazardous sites. SELECT sa.name, hs.name FROM sensitive_areas sa, hazardous_sites hs WHERE ST_Intersects(ST_Buffer(hs.location,(5 * 5280)),sa.zone);