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- -- this assumes you have loaded the census blockgroup table
- -- into postgres already. You should also reproject into a state plane system
- -- in this case, I used EPSG:2992 which is the preferred state wide projection
- -- for Oregon.
- -- do some tidying on the block group files, to make the boundaries the same
- -- as the state boundary data I'm using.
- UPDATE acs_bg_2017 a
- UPDATE acs_bg_2017 a
- SET geom=st_multi(st_buffer(st_intersection(a.geom,s.geom),0.000))
- FROM or_state_boundary s
- WHERE s.feature=3;
- -- next we're going to generate a point for each person in the block group
- -- and place it randomly within that block group.
- -- this creates one MultiPoint feature per block group
- DROP TABLE IF EXISTS pop_pts, foo;
- CREATE TABLE pop_pts as
- SELECT
- geoid_data,
- st_area(geom) as area
- ,pop17
- ,case pop17 when 0 then 0 else pop17::numeric/(st_area(geom)/(5280*5280)) end as density
- ,st_generatepoints(geom,pop17) as geom
- FROM acs_bg_2017;
- -- Next we want to dump all of those points from all of those blockgroups
- -- into a single table with one row per point.
- CREATE TEMP TABLE foo as
- SELECT st_x(geom) as lon -- not technically lon or lat, sue me.
- ,st_y(geom) lat
- FROM (SELECT (st_dumppoints(geom)).geom FROM pop_pts) a ;
- DROP TABLE IF EXISTS median_pt;
- CREATE TABLE median_pt(geom geometry(Point,2992)); -- to keep QGIS happy by defining the projection
- -- We calculate the median lat/northing and lon/easting for all the points
- -- and create a single point at those coordinates.
- INSERT INTO median_pt
- SELECT
- st_setsrid(
- st_makepoint(
- (select percentile_disc(0.5) within group (order by lon) from foo),
- (select percentile_disc(0.5) within group (order by lat) from foo)
- )
- ,2992);
- -- Now we want to generate lines N-S and E-W extending from the bounding box
- -- of the state through the median point we found above.
- DROP TABLE IF EXISTS med_lines;
- CREATE TABLE med_lines as
- WITH m as (
- WITH p as (select (st_dumppoints(st_extent(geom))).geom from acs_bg_2017)
- SELECT
- max(st_x(p.geom)) as max_x,
- min(st_x(p.geom)) as min_x,
- max(st_y(p.geom)) as max_y,
- min(st_y(p.geom)) as min_y,
- avg(st_x(m.geom)) as med_x,
- avg(st_y(m.geom)) as med_y
- from p,median_pt as m
- )
- SELECT st_setsrid(st_makeline(ARRAY[st_makepoint(max_x,med_y),st_makepoint(min_x,med_y)]),2992) as geom
- FROM m
- UNION
- SELECT st_setsrid(st_makeline(ARRAY[st_makepoint(med_x,max_y),st_makepoint(med_x,min_y)]),2992)
- from m;
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