-- The County Supervisor needs a list of hazardous sites whose five-mile -- radius overlaps sensitive areas such as schools, hospitals, and nursing -- homes. The sensitive areas are stored in the table sensitive_areas that -- is created with the CREATE TABLE statement below. The zone column, defined -- as a ST_Polygon, stores the outline of each of the sensitive areas. CREATE TABLE sensitive_areas (id integer, name varchar(128), size float, type varchar(10), zone ST_Polygon); -- The hazardous sites are stored in the hazardous_sites table created below. -- 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 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)); 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 sensitive_areas and hazardous_sites tables are joined by the -- ST_Overlaps function, which returns t (TRUE) for all sensitive_areas -- rows whose zone polygons overlap the buffered five-mile radius of the -- hazardous_sites location point. SELECT sa.name, hs.name FROM sensitive_areas sa, hazardous_sites hs WHERE ST_Overlaps(sa.zone, ST_Buffer(hs.location,26400));