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sym_difference (with strategy)

Calculate the symmetric difference of two geometries.

Description

The free function symmetric difference calculates the spatial set theoretic symmetric difference (XOR) of two geometries.

Synopsis

template<typename Geometry1, typename Geometry2, typename Collection, typename Strategy>
void sym_difference(Geometry1 const & geometry1, Geometry2 const & geometry2, Collection & output_collection,
                    Strategy const & strategy)

Parameters

Type

Concept

Name

Description

Geometry1 const &

Any type fulfilling a Geometry Concept

geometry1

A model of the specified concept

Geometry2 const &

Any type fulfilling a Geometry Concept

geometry2

A model of the specified concept

Collection &

output collection, either a multi-geometry, or a std::vector<Geometry> / std::deque<Geometry> etc

output_collection

the output collection

Strategy const &

Any type fulfilling a Sym_difference Strategy Concept

strategy

The strategy which will be used for sym_difference calculations

Header

Either

#include <boost/geometry.hpp>

Or

#include <boost/geometry/algorithms/sym_difference.hpp>

Conformance

The function sym_difference implements function SymDifference from the OGC Simple Feature Specification.

Behavior

Case

Behavior

areal (e.g. polygon)

All combinations of: box, ring, polygon, multi_polygon

linear (e.g. linestring) / areal (e.g. polygon)

A combinations of a (multi) linestring with a (multi) polygon results in a collection of linestrings

linear (e.g. linestring)

All combinations of: linestring, multi_linestring; results in a collection of linestrings

pointlike (e.g. point)

All combinations of: point, multi_point; results in a collection of points

Other geometries

Not yet supported in this version

Spherical

Not yet supported in this version

Three dimensional

Not yet supported in this version

[Note] Note

Check the Polygon Concept for the rules that polygon input for this algorithm should fulfill

Example

Shows how to calculate the symmetric difference (XOR) of two polygons

#include <iostream>

#include <boost/geometry.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/geometries/polygon.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/geometries/point_xy.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/geometries/multi_polygon.hpp>

#include <boost/foreach.hpp>


int main()
{
    typedef boost::geometry::model::polygon<boost::geometry::model::d2::point_xy<double> > polygon;

    polygon green, blue;

    boost::geometry::read_wkt(
        "POLYGON((2 1.3,2.4 1.7,2.8 1.8,3.4 1.2,3.7 1.6,3.4 2,4.1 3,5.3 2.6,5.4 1.2,4.9 0.8,2.9 0.7,2 1.3)"
            "(4.0 2.0, 4.2 1.4, 4.8 1.9, 4.4 2.2, 4.0 2.0))", green);

    boost::geometry::read_wkt(
        "POLYGON((4.0 -0.5 , 3.5 1.0 , 2.0 1.5 , 3.5 2.0 , 4.0 3.5 , 4.5 2.0 , 6.0 1.5 , 4.5 1.0 , 4.0 -0.5))", blue);

    boost::geometry::model::multi_polygon<polygon> multi;

    boost::geometry::sym_difference(green, blue, multi);

    std::cout
        << "green XOR blue:" << std::endl
        << "total: " << boost::geometry::area(multi) << std::endl;
    int i = 0;
    BOOST_FOREACH(polygon const& p, multi)
    {
        std::cout << i++ << ": " << boost::geometry::area(p) << std::endl;
    }


    return 0;
}

Output:

green XOR blue:
total: 3.1459
0: 0.02375
1: 0.542951
2: 0.0149697
3: 0.226855
4: 0.839424
5: 0.525154
6: 0.015
7: 0.181136
8: 0.128798
9: 0.340083
10: 0.307778

sym_difference

See also

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