[geos-devel] [Mobilitydb-dev] Problem with ST_FrechetDistance in PostGIS/GEOS

[Regina Obe]

I do get 2.23606 on PostGIS so we are in agreement there.

 

As to what the right answer is I have no clue and reading math equations gives me a headache.

 

I’ve added geos-develop to mailing list for comment.

 

Thanks,

Regina

 

From: Mobilitydb-dev [mailto:mobilitydb-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Esteban Zimanyi
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2021 4:35 AM
To: mobilitydb-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Mobilitydb-dev] Problem with ST_FrechetDistance in PostGIS/GEOS

 

Dear Regina

 

We started the implementation of the discrete Frechet distance in MobilityDB and found out that we obtain a different result than PostGIS/GEOS.

 

test=# select frechetDistance(tgeompoint '[Point(1 1)@2000-01-01, Point(2 2)@2000-01-02, Point(3 1)@2000-01-03]',
tgeompoint '[Point(1 4)@2000-01-01, Point(2 3)@2000-01-02, Point(3 4)@2000-01-03, Point(4 3)@2000-01-04]');
 frechetdistance
-----------------
               3
(1 row)

test=# select ST_FrechetDistance(geometry 'Linestring(1 1,2 2,3 1)',
test(#   geometry 'Linestring(1 4,2 3,3 4,4 3)');
 st_frechetdistance
--------------------
   2.23606797749979
(1 row)

 

We used the simple algorithm referenced in the PostGIS manual

https://postgis.net/docs/ST_FrechetDistance.html

and according to our understanding the correct result is 3.

 

Indeed the matrix of Euclidean distances between a vertex of the first linestring and a vertex of the second linestring is as follows

 

3.6 2.23 2.23
3.6 2.23 3
2.23 1 2.23
3 2.23 3.6 

And the matrix of the computation of the Frechet distance (ca in the algorithm) is as follows

3.6 3 3
3.6 3 3
3 3 3
3 3 3.6

Could you please have a look ? If you confirm that there is a problem I will post a ticket in PostGIS and/or GEOS mailing lists.

 

Many thanks

 

Esteban

 

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