[QGIS-Developer] Remove "Polygons must follow boundaries of layer ..." check in Geometry checker plugin?

[Jacky Volpes]

Hi Harrissou,

Should we ask on the users mailing list?

Regards,
Jacky


On Fri Nov 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM CET, DelazJ via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> Hi devs,
> I didn't get any reply so I wonder if it is because nobody knows, nobody
> cares, or something else...
> Other than the concern of "adding/keeping a broken tool" in QGIS, we have a
> PR in the docs we don't really know how to finalize, so a feedback would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Regards,
> Harrissou (for the docs team)
>
> Le mar. 28 oct. 2025 à 10:38, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Devs,
>> In the "Geometry checker" core plugin, there is that option
>> called "Polygons must follow boundaries of layer ...", of which a
>> Processing alg "Polygons exceeding boundaries" was recently created.
>> While testing the algorithm in order to properly document it, we came
>> across weird results (also output by the geometry checker) that we are
>> unable to explain/understand their coherence.
>>
>> Issues and discussion are availabel at
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/63454 and
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/pull/10314#issuecomment-3425649278
>>
>> 1/ Does anyone *KNOW* how this option is really supposed to check? and
>> understand the logic behind the output?
>> 2/ If there is agreement that this tool does not adress any real use case,
>> is it something we want to keep in QGIS (in this state)?
>>
>> Looking forward to your replies.
>> Regards,
>> Harrissou
>>




-- 
Jacky Volpes - Oslandia
Ingénieur développeur SIG

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