[geos-devel] C# Bindings?

[Martin Davis]

A couple of things:

You might also try looking at the Net Topology Suite, which is a port of 
JTS to C# (just like GEOS is a port to C++).  HOWEVER, this is a fork of 
JTS, and I don't know how current or active it is.  (It might be nice 
thing for JTS to offer an official .NET compatible version....)

You can also try compiling JTS under J#.  It mostly all works - there 
might be a few simple utility classes you have to supply.

As for your topology problems, this might be cause by invalid input 
data, or it might be caused by robustness errors in the computation 
itself.  The most recent version of GEOS has some substantial 
improvements in robustness for overlay ops, so you should try it and see 
if it fixes your problem.  (At a very high level this is doing something 
similar to your concept of "cleaning up" the geometries to avoid the 
problems - but it's probably not something you want to try at home  8^)

Another note - if you are unioning many polygons together, JTS is just 
adding an optimized function to do this efficiently, and hopefully this 
will make it in GEOS in due course.

Simon Perkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any C# bindings for GEOS out there?
>
> We've been using the OGR interface to GEOS (which are exposed by the 
> OGR C# bindings), but are running into some strange topology 
> exceptions (side location conflicts and non-nodal intersections) and 
> I'd like to use the GEOS isValid() method which is not exposed by OGR, 
> AFAIK. Might using the GEOS library directly be more efficient than 
> going through OGR as well?
>
> In general, is there an easy way to "clean up" a geometry so it won't 
> raise these kinds of exceptions? The geometries in question are all 
> generated by the union of (many) simple polygons.
>
> Anyway, I could go off and roll PInvoke stubs for the GEOS functions I 
> need in not much time, but I figured I'd see what other people have 
> already before I do that. Any interest in adding such bindings to 
> geos? I could also take a look at SWIG, but it always scares me for 
> some reason...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sy
>
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