NAME
Boost::Geometry::Utils - Bindings for the Boost Geometry library
VERSION
version 0.04
SYNOPSIS
use Boost::Geometry::Utils qw(polygon linestring polygon_linestring_intersection);
my $square = [ # ccw
[10, 10],
[20, 10],
[20, 20],
[10, 20],
];
my $hole_in_square = [ # cw
[14, 14],
[14, 16],
[16, 16],
[16, 14],
];
my $polygon = polygon($square, $hole_in_square);
my $linestring = linestring([ [5, 15], [30, 15] ]);
my $intersection = polygon_linestring_intersection($polygon, $linestring);
# $intersection is:
# [
# [ [10, 15], [14, 15] ],
# [ [16, 15], [20, 15] ],
# ]
ABSTRACT
This module provides bindings to perform some geometric operations using the Boost Geometry library. It does not aim at providing full bindings for such library, and that's why I left the Boost::Geometry namespace free. I'm unsure about the optimal architectural for providing full bindings, but I'm interested in such a project -- so, if you have ideas please get in touch with me.
Warning: the API could change in the future.
METHODS
polygon
Converts one or more arrayref(s) of points to a Boost Geometry polygon structure. Note that a Boost Geometry polygon is actually a polygon with holes.
linestring
Converts an arrayref of points to a Boost Geometry linestring.
polygon_linestring_intersection
Performs an intersection between the supplied polygon and linestring, and returns an arrayref of linestrings (represented as arrayrefs of points). Note that such an intersection is also called clipping.
polygon_to_wkt
Converts one or more arrayref(s) of points to a WKT representation of a polygon (with holes).
linestring_to_wkt
Converts an arrayref of points to a WKT representation of a multilinestring.
wkt_to_multilinestring
Parses a MULTILINESTRING back to a Perl data structure.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to mauke and mst (Matt S. Trout (cpan:MSTROUT) <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>) for their valuable help in getting this to compile under Windows (MinGW) too.
AUTHOR
Alessandro Ranellucci <aar@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Alessandro Ranellucci.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.