[postgis-users] Centroid Calculation Error???

David Blasby dblasby at refractions.net
Tue Oct 28 09:26:05 PST 2003


Düster Horst wrote:
> In my opinion the distribution of vertex
> points shouldn't have an influence of the centroid position.


OGC defines centroid as::

Centroid( ):Point—The mathematical centroid for this Surface as a Point. 
The result is not guaranteed to be on this Surface.

I calculate the centroid of the points of the polygon.

dave








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