GEOS  3.13.0dev
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geos::operation::overlay Namespace Reference

Contains classes that perform a topological overlay to compute boolean spatial functions. More...

Classes

class  MaximalEdgeRing
 A ring of DirectedEdges which may contain nodes of degree > 2. More...
 
class  MinimalEdgeRing
 A ring of Edges with the property that no node has degree greater than 2. More...
 
class  OverlayNodeFactory
 Creates nodes for use in the geomgraph::PlanarGraph constructed during overlay operations. NOTE: also used by operation::valid. More...
 
class  PolygonBuilder
 Forms Polygon out of a graph of geomgraph::DirectedEdge. More...
 

Detailed Description

Contains classes that perform a topological overlay to compute boolean spatial functions.

The Overlay Algorithm is used in spatial analysis methods for computing set-theoretic operations (boolean combinations) of input Geometrys. The algorithm for computing the overlay uses the intersection operations supported by topology graphs. To compute an overlay it is necessary to explicitly compute the resultant graph formed by the computed intersections.

The algorithm to compute a set-theoretic spatial analysis method has the following steps:

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