Is there a way to calculate length of linestring from one point to another?

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If I have one linestring and coordinates of two points on that linestring, what is the easiest way to calculate not shortest distance from those two points, but distance over the given road (given linestring) in PostGIS?



Example of linestring and points A and B on it



So in the given example given linestrin is whole line and I want to calculate length of red line between points A and B.
Any help with this?




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    If I have one linestring and coordinates of two points on that linestring, what is the easiest way to calculate not shortest distance from those two points, but distance over the given road (given linestring) in PostGIS?



    Example of linestring and points A and B on it



    So in the given example given linestrin is whole line and I want to calculate length of red line between points A and B.
    Any help with this?




    postgis postgresql linestring length points




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      If I have one linestring and coordinates of two points on that linestring, what is the easiest way to calculate not shortest distance from those two points, but distance over the given road (given linestring) in PostGIS?



      Example of linestring and points A and B on it



      So in the given example given linestrin is whole line and I want to calculate length of red line between points A and B.
      Any help with this?




      postgis postgresql linestring length points




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      If I have one linestring and coordinates of two points on that linestring, what is the easiest way to calculate not shortest distance from those two points, but distance over the given road (given linestring) in PostGIS?



      Example of linestring and points A and B on it



      So in the given example given linestrin is whole line and I want to calculate length of red line between points A and B.
      Any help with this?





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          This is one way of doing it



          Find out how big fraction of the line is between the 2 points with ST_LineLocatePoint and multiply that fraction with the whole length.



          SELECT 
          (ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p2)-ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p1) )*st_length(l) dist_along_line, 
          st_distance(p1, p2) direct_distance
           FROM
          (
           SELECT 'linestring(1 1, 1 2, 2 2, 5 0, 10 5)'::geometry l, 
           'point(1 2)'::geometry p1, 'point(5 3)'::geometry p2
          ) a





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            This is one way of doing it



            Find out how big fraction of the line is between the 2 points with ST_LineLocatePoint and multiply that fraction with the whole length.



            SELECT 
            (ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p2)-ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p1) )*st_length(l) dist_along_line, 
            st_distance(p1, p2) direct_distance
             FROM
            (
             SELECT 'linestring(1 1, 1 2, 2 2, 5 0, 10 5)'::geometry l, 
             'point(1 2)'::geometry p1, 'point(5 3)'::geometry p2
            ) a





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              up vote
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              down vote



              accepted










              This is one way of doing it



              Find out how big fraction of the line is between the 2 points with ST_LineLocatePoint and multiply that fraction with the whole length.



              SELECT 
              (ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p2)-ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p1) )*st_length(l) dist_along_line, 
              st_distance(p1, p2) direct_distance
               FROM
              (
               SELECT 'linestring(1 1, 1 2, 2 2, 5 0, 10 5)'::geometry l, 
               'point(1 2)'::geometry p1, 'point(5 3)'::geometry p2
              ) a





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                accepted







                up vote
                4
                down vote



                accepted






                This is one way of doing it



                Find out how big fraction of the line is between the 2 points with ST_LineLocatePoint and multiply that fraction with the whole length.



                SELECT 
                (ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p2)-ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p1) )*st_length(l) dist_along_line, 
                st_distance(p1, p2) direct_distance
                 FROM
                (
                 SELECT 'linestring(1 1, 1 2, 2 2, 5 0, 10 5)'::geometry l, 
                 'point(1 2)'::geometry p1, 'point(5 3)'::geometry p2
                ) a





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                This is one way of doing it



                Find out how big fraction of the line is between the 2 points with ST_LineLocatePoint and multiply that fraction with the whole length.



                SELECT 
                (ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p2)-ST_LineLocatePoint(l,p1) )*st_length(l) dist_along_line, 
                st_distance(p1, p2) direct_distance
                 FROM
                (
                 SELECT 'linestring(1 1, 1 2, 2 2, 5 0, 10 5)'::geometry l, 
                 'point(1 2)'::geometry p1, 'point(5 3)'::geometry p2
                ) a






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