[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr polygon cleanup algorithm?

[Even Rouault]

On mardi 28 février 2017 17:25:51 CET TazMainiac wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> When I use ogr2ogr to process a shape file (into KML for examle) that has
> "invalid" polygons (self-intersections or other problems) in it, it "cleans
> them up", such that they are valid.  Is there a description anywhere of
> what algorithm it's using to do this cleanup?  

Hum, there's not really such a cleanup algorithm. When writing a shapefile, there's some 
"topological analysis" to figure out which rings of a (multi)polygon are inside others, so as to 
respect the shapefile specification, but that's all. I'd be surprised that self-intersections of a 
ring are corrected for example.

if you want to explicitly remove invalid geometries, you can do something like:

ogr2ogr out.shp in.kml \
  -sql "SELECT * FROM input_layer WHERE ST_IsValid(geometry)" -dialect SQLite

Even


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