Gents,

I am looking for a more precise polygon overlap test and any comment/pointers/suggestions are appreciated.  Attached is the modified poly_overlap in geoops.c.  

If the polygons pass the bounding box check, the following tests will be carried out.  The tests are terminated as soon as one of them returns true:

1) At least one of the vertex in polygon a is inside polygon b
2) At least one of the vertex in polygon b is inside polygon a
3) At least one edge of polygon a intersects with an edge on polygon b

All these tests could be expensive for polygons with lots of vertices.  Would anyone know where I can find information on a more efficient way of determining polygon overlap.  

Efficiency aside, is there anything obivious I have missed which could lead to an incorrect result?

The end game for me is to be able to test if a path enters a polygon and this is a first step as I am new to postgresql.  Looks like postgresql converts the path to a polygon and call poly_overlap(), which could lead to incorrect result.  At some stage, I might add an overlap operator that accepts a path and a polygon.

TIA
Kenneth Chan.
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Thu, 23 May 2002 05:23:35 +1000
"Kenneth Chan" <kkchan@technologist.com>
A more precise polygon_overlap()