[postgis-users] bow-tie polygons and the like
Frank Warmerdam
warmerdam at pobox.com
Tue Apr 1 15:59:26 PDT 2008
Martin Davis wrote:
>
> Chris Hermansen wrote:
>> I guess what is interesting is the self-intersecting and loop
>> self-intersecting polygons were built by ogr2ogr when converting from
>> ArcInfo coverages to PostGIS.
>>
>>
> Now that *is* interesting. Seems like maybe a bug in the ogr2ogr code?
> Is it worth asking FW about this?
Martin,
In at least some polygon-assembly-from-arcs situations OGR just arbitrarily
connects arcs to arcs with matching end points with no regard to ambiguous
situations like bowties.
Best regards,
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