[postgis-users] intersects(), touches(), overlaps() documentation issue

[Martin Davis]

>From your image it looks to me like those lines are not exactly
parallel.  In that case they would only touch, not overlap.

The only way to be 100% certain is if you can post the geometry for the
lines.

Touches returns true if the geometries have a point in common, but their
interiors do not intersect.  This is the case if the lines are not quite
parallel.

Martin Davis, Senior Technical Architect
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> Behalf Of Amit Kulkarni
> Sent: March 7, 2006 8:38 AM
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Subject: [postgis-users] intersects(), touches(),overlaps() 
> documentation issue
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> I had a situation where a line overlapped another line for a 
> very small distance near its endpoints. touches() returned 
> true but I was confused why my stored proc was not executing 
> as it should. After some frustrated hours checking inside the 
> loop, I thought to pull up the offending segments in a 
> Desktop GIS and lo! I saw the overlap immediately.
> 
> I was under the impression that touches() returns true and 
> only true if endpoints touched. Is that impression invalid? 
> intersects() returns true but overlap() doesn't return true?
> 
> I am attaching a jpeg. If needed I can attach a .shp
> 
> Thanks for your input
> 
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