[geos-devel] Looking for the closest point

[Paul Meems]

Hi List,

We use with MapWinGIS (C++ ActiveX control) GDAL with GEOS.

I've got a linestring (stream) and need to know the closest point at that
stream from a specific location.
What I need is the index of the point in the stream and the distance from
the location to that point.

We currently have a custom GetClosestPoint method which is not using GEOS,
but that is not working when a long linestring is close to the location but
the points are far away.
For example my line has two points, starts in Amsterdam and ends in Paris.
My location is near Antwerp.

Does GEOS have a better method for this? I did searched using Google and
found several methods/pages but I'm not sure what to use.
I also want to make it a generic method that will work with all types of
lines and polygons.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

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