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Improve booleanOverlap docs #1333
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Ah, Ive got it. "Compares two geometries of the same dimension and returns true if their intersection set results in a geometry different from both but of the same dimension. [...]" My polygon is completely withing the bounding box. As far as I know an intersection (as the documentation says) encompasses a polygon that is within another polygon. What |
Hi @Stophface Yeah I think we could improve the docs for some of the boolean modules are understanding their definitions can be a bit finicky. The following taken from the postgis docs is quite helpful
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@rowanwins Yes. As far as I understand, an
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I just ran into this issue, I was thinking that booleanOverlap was an intersection, I can see here it's not. I think that once booleanIntersects makes it to the docs, this would clear up the issue as most people looking for intersects would use it rather than falsly trying to use overlap. |
Documentation updated via #2133 |
I am having this polygon:
and this bounding box:
I want to know if the polygon is intesecting the bounding box
I use booleanOverlap
It returns
false
.Why is that? That definetly is within the bounding box. As far as I understand it should return
true
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