[postgis-users] Use of tolerances in topology

[Jose Carlos Martinez Llario]

Sometimes some of the problems can be carry out using several 
st_dwithin, comparing the boundary of a geometry with the boundary or 
with the other  geometry and using tolerances. Several st_Dwithin should 
be used. Any way I think some new spatial functions could be implemented 
to do this task in a row in c internally.


On 17/04/2012 19:06, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:58:01AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> On Apr 17, 2012 Jose Carlos Martinez<jomarlla at cgf.upv.es>  wrote:
>>> On 17/04/2012 17:46, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>>> Those functions are ISO functions and as such are not specified to
>>>> deal with a tolerance. Handling of tolerance is not always
>>>> straightforward as using ST_DWithin. It may also have a big cost.
>>> About  trying to enhance ST_Dwithin, last time I checked PostGIS code it was
>>> implemented using brute force (after comparing the boxes). Maybe one way to
>> Your understanding is correct, the approach is mostly brute force, and
>> I have a pile of code lying about waiting to go in that implements
>> what you describe in terms of building internal indexes.
> But still my observation about cost wasn't specific to ST_DWithin.
> The thing is I'm not sure you can use ST_DWithin for everything.
>
> An interesting case could be the one of adding a pie cut in 16 slices.
> There would be a central node from which 16 edges depart.
> Distance between each edge and the other would be close to 0, but the
> edges would really only touch at the endpoint. Any tolerance other
> than zero would prevent adding more than a single edge.
>
> Actually, now that I imagine that case I'm not sure ST_Snap would be
> doing the right thing in that case. Probably not. Until it's modified
> to always snap to the _closest_ point.
>
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