[Gdal-dev] OGR Geometry Contains() function

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 2/8/06, Aykut KOÇAK <aykutkocak at superonline.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> In OGR object tree, is there any chance to adjust some kind of treshold
> for Contains() and similar compare functions? I have some data collected
> with GPS which has got 20 - 40 meters difference from my LINESTRINGs and
> I'd like to match these 2 datasets with a accuracy of eg.30 meters.


Aykut,

As Mateusz mentions Buffer is the solution.  The Contains
operator is based on GEOS and does not include thresholds.
Buffer is exposed in Python.

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