[geos-devel] left and right buffer

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi Martin,

I think a useful variant of this for polygons it to be able to specify 
inside or outside, so you could effectively grow and shrink the polygon.

The "grow" option is great for finding abutters, and I think the buffer 
command today already does this.

The "shrink" option is great for defining/showing boundary offsets 
within a lot that might be needed to insure zoning rules.

-Steve

Martin Davis wrote:
> I'm curious what your use case is for this functionality.  Can you post
> some sample data that you want L/R buffers for, and perhaps an image of
> what you expect the results to look like?
> 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: geos-devel-bounces at geos.refractions.net 
>>[mailto:geos-devel-bounces at geos.refractions.net] On Behalf Of 
>>zhangjing
>>Sent: May 17, 2006 12:10 AM
>>To: geos-devel at geos.refractions.net
>>Subject: [geos-devel] left and right buffer
>>
>>
>>hi,
>>
>>Is there any way in GEOS to calculate geometry's left or 
>>right buffer ? 
>>
>>TIA
>>Jing Zhang
>>
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