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GEOS Enters OSGeo Incubation
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The OSGeo mailing list announced that GEOS is entering OSGeo incubation process. What is GEOS? "GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite" Ok, what is the Java Topology Suite? "The JTS Topology Suite (JTS) is an API providing spatial object model and fundamental geometric functions. It implements the geometry model defined in the OpenGIS Consortium Simple Features Specification for SQL. Functions provided include:
* spatial predicates (based on the DE-9IM model),
* overlay functions (intersection, difference, union, symmetric difference),
* buffer,
* convex hull,
* area and distance functions, and
* topological validity checking"
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