[geos-devel] Buffering with obstacles

[Nyall Dawson]

Hi list!

(Apologies in advance for the embedded image, I couldn't write this
post sensibly without it).

I had a novel request this week for calculation of buffers which
respect obstacle geometries. Given input features (the red dot below,
but could also be line/polygon features), and a layer of "obstacles"
(the blue line, but could be either lines or polygons), then the
buffer must respect the obstacles and not be allowed to cross over the
blue line. Ie the desired result is the red shaded area in the
attached image.

Every point in the buffer should be within the buffer distance of the
original geometry by paths which don't cross any of the obstacle
features.

There's some prior related discussion at
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/390958/buffering-with-obstacles

Is this something which could potentially belong in JTS / GEOS? Is it
even possible? And if so, is it something my customer could fund the
development of?

Cheers,
Nyall
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