-- The city engineer needs to find out that a lot is -- within the footprint of the buiding. There are two tables -- created here to get the building footprints and the lots. -- The building footprints are stored in the buildingfootprints -- table created with the following CREATE TABLE statement. CREATE TABLE buildingfootprints (building_id integer, lot_id integer, footprint ST_MultiPolygon); -- Here is the creation of the lots CREATE TABLE lots (lot_id integer, lot ST_MultiPolygon); INSERT INTO buildingfootprints VALUES( 506, 1010, ST_MPolyFromText('multipolygon (((7.0 45.0,15.0 45.0,15.0 51.0,18.0 51.0,18.0 54.0,8.0 54.0,8.0 51.0,7.0 51.0,7.0 45.0)))',1000) ); INSERT INTO buildingfootprints VALUES( 543, 2930, ST_MPolyFromText('multipolygon (((26.0 55.0,38.0 55.0,38.0 48.0,34.0 48.0,34.0 50.0,26.0 50.0,26.0 55.0)))',1000) ); INSERT INTO buildingfootprints VALUES( 1208, 203, ST_MPolyFromText('multipolygon (((8.0 39.0,12.0 39.0,12.0 33.0,17.0 33.0,17.0 22.0,8.0 22.0,8.0 39.0)))',1000) ); INSERT INTO buildingfootprints VALUES( 178, 5192, ST_MPolyFromText('multipolygon (((26.0 33.0,38.0 33.0,38.0 24.0,33.0 24.0,33.0 27.0,26.0 27.0,26.0 33.0)))',1000) ); INSERT INTO lots VALUES( 1010, ST_MPolyFromText('multipolygon (((2 57,21.5 57,21.5 38,2 38,2 57)))',1000) ); INSERT INTO lots VALUES( 2930, ST_MPolyFromText('multipolygon (((21.5 57,40 57,40 38,21.5 38,21.5 57)))',1000) ); INSERT INTO lots VALUES( 203, ST_MPolyFromText('multipolygon (((21.5 38,40 38,40 20,21.5 20,21.5 38)))',1000) ); INSERT INTO lots VALUES( 5192, ST_MPolyFromText('multipolygon (((2 20,2 38,21.5 38,21.5 20,2 20)))',1000) ); -- The city engineer first selects the buildings that are not completely -- contained within one lot. SELECT building_id FROM buildingfootprints, lots WHERE NOT ST_Contains(lot,footprint); -- The city engineer realizes that although the first query will provide -- her with a list of all building IDs that have footprints outside of a -- lot polygon, it won't tell her if the rest have the correct lot_id -- assigned to them. This second query performs a data integrity check -- on the lot_id column of the buildingfootprints table. SELECT bf.building_id, bf.lot_id, lots.lot_id FROM buildingfootprints bf, lots WHERE NOT ST_Contains(lot,footprint) AND lots.lot_id <> bf.lot_id;