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[strk at refractions.net]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:37:25PM -0700, Sean M. Montague wrote:
> I've investigated what the relationship of the points is to the original
> poly layer, and they are not the vertices, at least not all of them.
> The original layer is the coast of south east Alaska with about 25
> islands.  The points may be some of the vertices perhaps, they do lie on
> the coasts.  The summary() returns 556 "Object 0 is a POINT()" and 1
> "Object 0 is a LINESTRING() with 2 points".  The up side is, they at
> least lie within my bounding box.

It sounds as a bug to me. Which GEOS version are you using ?
What types are input geometries ?
Which postgis version ? postgresql ?
--strk;