[postgis-devel] ST_ConcaveHull in GEOS

Martin Davis mtnclimb at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 16:04:30 PST 2022


For some more background on the (potential) new Concave Hull algorithm,
see:

https://github.com/locationtech/jts/pull/823
http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2022/01/concave-hulls-in-jts.html





On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 2:38 PM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> Hey all,
> The native ST_ConcaveHull in GEOS is in GEOS main now, so I have hooked it
> up into PostGIS in this branch
>
> https://github.com/pramsey/postgis/tree/master-concavehull
>
>
> Under this function for now.
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION _ST_GEOSConcaveHull(
>   geom geometry,
>   area_ratio float8,
>   allow_holes boolean DEFAULT false)
>
> I would like to just flip the old ST_ConcaveHull out and replace it with
> the new one, for folks with GEOS 3.11+, but I figured an interval to look
> at them side by side for a while on a test branch might be appreciated.
> Currently the case of point inputs is worth looking at. Polygon inputs that
> respect the polygon are (hull doesn't cross interior of input polygon)
> coming down the line.
>
> P
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