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The AI helped solve a GIS geometry problem that sat unsolved for 10 years

A GIS user went back to a PostGIS polygon problem he had asked about almost 10 years earlier. Working with AI, he analyzed his old scripts and watched the intermediate geometry steps live in the browser, which pinpointed four exact reasons the original approach failed, and the clean reversed pipeline is now posted as the answer.

How it works

  1. He brings his old PostGIS scripts to the AI
  2. They visualize each intermediate geometry step in the browser with Google Maps and Turf.js
  3. The four failure points are pinpointed
  4. He posts the clean reversed pipeline as the answer

Why it’s worth knowing

The problem sat unanswered for a decade. The agent made the failing geometry visible step by step, which is what finally explained it.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on gis.stackexchange.com. See the original ↗

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