[geos-devel] GEOS C API for Polygonal Coverage operations?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 02:37:37PM -0700, Martin Davis wrote:
> I've started to build out operations on Polygonal Coverages in JTS ([1],
> [2]).  

[...]

> A key question is how to expose these operations in the GEOS C API.  I see
> two options:
> 1) Model a Polygonal Coverage as an array of simple Polygons (and possibly
> MultiPolygons)
> 2) Provide a Polygonal Coverage datatype (which might contain internal
> topology)

Could a coverage datatype allow performing operations on PostGIS Topologies
w/out building the polygons for each face ? There's an ISO standard
representation of topologies, maybe such representation could be used
to transfer those topologies back and forth with GEOS ?

--strk;