<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You are exposing a limitation in the postgis geodetic implementation, namely that we don’t handle things larger than a hemisphere well. This is not unlike the SQL Server 2008 limitation, except we don’t toss errors at you.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://alastaira.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/ring-orientation-bigger-than-a-hemisphere-polygons-and-the-reorientobject-method-in-sql-server-2012/" class="">https://alastaira.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/ring-orientation-bigger-than-a-hemisphere-polygons-and-the-reorientobject-method-in-sql-server-2012/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The second part of the blog post is instructive, in that it shows that “fixing” the problem will just migrate a new problem out to users with small, but mis-oriented polygons. What they think of as local objects (parcels, cities, whatever) will, to their surprise, suddenly become nearly-global.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There’s some interesting stuff in the SQL Server documentation, in particular the idea of using circular envelopes for geographic objects, which has a certain appeal, but would necessitate a pretty major re-write of geography. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There’s actually two “hemisphere problems” to deal with in any geodetic database: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- what is the correct interpretation of an edge from A to B, since there are two paths between A and B over the great circle that joins them</div><div class="">- what is the correct interpretation of a ring</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The PostGIS geodetic attempts to use “take the smaller thing”, but imperfectly, as you have demonstrated. The question is whether to continue to patch that up, or attempt to reimplement with something more explicit, like “ring orientation determines enclosure” and accept all the other knock-on issues that arise as people try and load mis-oriented rings into the system.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s a very interesting and challenging topic, thanks for investigating, I particularly like your point-field method of visualizing the issues with the algorithm, which are associated with the point-in-polygon routine. Point-in-polygon is one of those algorithms that is challenging on the sphere, and more so when what is “in” the polygon is not necessarily clear.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ATB,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">P</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 9, 2019, at 9:53 AM, Christian Pschierer <<a href="mailto:christian.pschierer@gmx.net" class="">christian.pschierer@gmx.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Hi Darafei,
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yes, the MakeBox example was not a good one. Even though the basic question -- which rule determines inside and outside of a large geography polygon -- remains the same.
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But the problem is a different one:
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SELECT ST_Distance(ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON((-36.5625 40.9798980696201, -22.5 -7.71099165543322,6.328125 -44.0875850282452,
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172.96875 75.320025232208,68.203125 77.9156689863258,4.21875 71.3007929163745,
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return 0 in PostGis 2.5.2. (as expected)
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However: ST_Intersect or ST_DWithin on the same geometries return false. Distance 0 and Intersects=false does not make sense.
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The culprit is the bounding-box check in the latter two function ( OPERATOR(public.&&) ).
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Create a sample dataset with one point per 1x1 degree:
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SELECT eid,ST_SetSRID(geom, 4326) FROM tmp_points_1x1
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returns the expected result:
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ST_Intersects leaves a hole around the point 0, 0!
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SELECT eid,ST_SetSRID(geom::geography, 4326) FROM tmp_points_1x1
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&& leaves 2 holes and select a lot of additional points outside of the expected bounding box.
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SELECT eid,ST_SetSRID(geom, 4326) FROM tmp_points_1x1
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Greetings
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Hi Christian,
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To understand the query please try plotting your polygon on a globe and
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equator, other parallel to 0 and third to 90th meridian). You will see that
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your "large" geometry is really 40 degrees wide spot around antimeridian.
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To visualize it better using common planar GIS tools, feed it into
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geography ST_Segmentize - it will produce the actual 'curved' geometry used
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in calculation. To see closer to behavior you expect, make sure there are
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no points connected by longer, not shorter, part of Great Circle, as in
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your example.
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SELECT ST_Distance(ST_SetSRID( ST_MakeBox2D(ST_Point(160,
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returns 13130km instead of 0 as the point 0,0 should be inside this polygon.
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Queries on smaller search areas, or geometry queries return 0.
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behaviour?
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Greetings
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