gogeos - Go library for spatial data operations and geometric algorithms

gogeos is a library for Go that provides operations on spatial data and geometric algorithms.

It provides bindings to the GEOS C library.

Quick start

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/paulsmith/gogeos/geos"
)

func main() {
    line, _ := geos.FromWKT("LINESTRING (0 0, 10 10, 20 20)")
    buf, _ := line.Buffer(2.5)
    fmt.Println(buf)
    // Output: POLYGON ((18.2322330470336311 21.7677669529663689, 18.61…
}

Overview

Functionality

Binary predicates - intersects, disjoint, etc.
Topology operations - difference, union, etc.
Polygonization, line merging, and simplification
Prepared geometries (for better performance for common binary predicates)
Validity checking
DE-9IM
Geometry info - area, length, distance, etc.
IO - WKT & WKB read/write

gogeos is an open source project.

Community

Installation

Requirements

GEOS 3.3.8 or 3.3.9

GEOS must be installed on your system to build gogeos.

Ubuntu

$ apt-get install libgeos-dev

OS X - homebrew

$ brew install geos

From source (all OSes)

$ wget http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.3.8.tar.bz2
$ tar xvfj geos-3.3.8.tar.bz2
$ cd geos-3.3.8
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Installing gogeos

$ go get github.com/paulsmith/gogeos/geos

Documentation

Example

Let’s say you have two polygons, A (blue) and B (orange).

One of the most common things to do with a spatial data library like gogeos is compute the intersection of two or more geometries. Intersection is just a method on geometry objects in gogeos, which takes one argument, the other geometry, and computes the intersection with the receiver. The result is a new geometry, C (magenta):

C := geos.Must(A.Intersection(B))

geos.Must is just a convenience function that takes the output of any gogeos function or method that returns a geometry and an error. It panics if the error is non-null, otherwise returning the geometry, making it more convenient to use in single-value contexts. In production code, though, you’ll want to check the error value.

(NB: these graphics weren't produced by gogeos directly - I used the excellent draw2d package to render the output of gogeos functions.)

License

MIT. See COPYING.

paulsmith / gogeos

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