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Some spatial use cases require identifying "narrow" or "skinny" polygons.  A classic example is the process of cleaning ...

The JTS Topology Suite has been rolling out the capability to manage  polygonal coverages .  It supports modelling polygonal coverages as a...

A previous post introduced a new algorithm in the JTS Topology Suite called RelateNG .  It computes topological relationships between geome...

The most fundamental and widely-used operations in the JTS Topology Suite are the ones that evaluate topological relationships between geo...

A new capability for the JTS Topology Suite is operations to process Simple Polygonal Coverages .  A Simple Polygon Coverage is a set of ed...

The next operation delivered in the build-out of Simple Polygonal Coverages  in the JTS Topology Suite is Coverage Union . This is simply t...

Recently JTS gained the ability to compute Concave Hulls of point sets.  The algorithm used is based the  Chi-shapes  approach described by...

There is an elegant mathematical theory of binary relations .   Homogeneous relations are an important subclass of binary relations in whic...