Lin.ear th.inking

The other day this badge popped up on my GitHub profile: Sure enough, there is JTS in the list of dependencies provided by the Jet Propuls...

A recent blog post  by Elephant Tamer gives a critical appraisal of the improvements to overlay processing shipped in PostGIS 3.1 with GEOS...

In a previous post I announced the new geosop command-line interface (CLI) for the GEOS geometry API.  This post provides examples of usi...

The GEOS geometry API is used by many, many projects to do their heavy geometric lifting.  But GEOS has always had a bit of a PR problem. ...

The OGC Simple Features specification implemented by JTS has strict rules about what constitutes a valid polygonal geometry.  These includ...

Now that OverlayNG has landed on JTS master , it is getting attention from downstream projects interested in porting it or using it.  One of...

I'm happy to say that OverlayNG has landed on the JTS master branch!  This is the culmination of over a year of work, and even more y...

This is another in a series of posts about the new OverlayNG algorithm being developed for the JTS Topology Suite . (Previous ones are  her...

In a previous post I unveiled the exciting new improvement in the JTS Topology Suite called OverlayNG .  This new implementation  provides...

In the JTS Topology Suite ,  Overlay is the general term used for the binary   set-theoretic operations intersection , union , difference ...