[postgis-tickets] r14714 - Put in availability info in docs for ST_ClusterKMeans, ST_ClusterDBSCAN
Regina Obe
lr at pcorp.us
Sat Feb 27 06:53:41 PST 2016
Author: robe
Date: 2016-02-27 06:53:40 -0800 (Sat, 27 Feb 2016)
New Revision: 14714
Modified:
trunk/doc/reference_measure.xml
Log:
Put in availability info in docs for ST_ClusterKMeans, ST_ClusterDBSCAN
Closes #3478
Modified: trunk/doc/reference_measure.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/reference_measure.xml 2016-02-27 09:21:31 UTC (rev 14713)
+++ trunk/doc/reference_measure.xml 2016-02-27 14:53:40 UTC (rev 14714)
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@
<refnamediv>
<refname>ST_ClusterDBSCAN</refname>
- <refpurpose>Windowing function that returns integer id for the cluster each input geometry is in.</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Windowing function that returns integer id for the cluster each input geometry is in based on 2D implementation of Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -1079,11 +1079,13 @@
<para>Returns cluster number for each input geometry, based on a 2D
implementation of the
- <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBSCAN">DBSCAN</ulink>
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBSCAN">Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN)</ulink>
algorithm. An input geometry will be added to a cluster if it is
within <varname>eps</varname> distance of at least
- <varname>minpoints</varname> other input geometries.
+ <varname>minpoints</varname> other input geometries. Unlike <xref linked="ST_ClusterKMeans" />, it does not require to specify the number of
+ clusters for each dataset, but instead uses the desired input distance <varname>eps</varname> at optimal cluster size for each cluster.
</para>
+ <para>Availability: 2.3.0 - requires GEOS </para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
@@ -1098,7 +1100,7 @@
<para>
- Combining parcels with the same cluster number into a single geometry:
+ Combining parcels with the same cluster number into a single geometry. This uses named argument calling
</para>
<programlisting>
SELECT cid, ST_Collect(geom) AS cluster_geom, array_agg(parcel_id) AS ids_in_cluster FROM (
@@ -1204,6 +1206,7 @@
cluster number for each input geometry. The distance used for clustering is the
distance between the centroids of the geometries.
</para>
+ <para>Availability: 2.3.0 - requires GEOS </para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
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