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covered_by

Checks if the first geometry is inside or on border the second geometry.

Description

The free function covered_by checks if the first geometry is inside or on border the second geometry.

Synopsis

template<typename Geometry1, typename Geometry2>
bool covered_by(Geometry1 const & geometry1, Geometry2 const & geometry2)

Parameters

Type

Concept

Name

Description

Geometry1 const &

Any type fulfilling a Geometry Concept

geometry1

A model of the specified concept which might be inside or on the border of the second geometry

Geometry2 const &

Any type fulfilling a Geometry Concept

geometry2

A model of the specified concept which might cover the first geometry

Returns

true if geometry1 is inside of or on the border of geometry2, else false

Header

Either

#include <boost/geometry.hpp>

Or

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

Conformance

The function covered_by is not defined by OGC.

[Note] Note

Both PostGIS and Oracle contain an algorithm with the same name and the same functionality. See the PostGIS documentation.

Supported geometries

Point

Segment

Box

Linestring

Ring

Polygon

MultiPoint

MultiLinestring

MultiPolygon

Variant

Point

ok

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

Segment

ok

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

Box

ok

nyi

ok

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

Linestring

ok

nyi

nyi

ok

nyi

nyi

nyi

ok

nyi

nyi

Ring

ok

nyi

nyi

ok

ok

ok

nyi

ok

ok

ok

Polygon

ok

nyi

nyi

ok

ok

ok

nyi

ok

ok

ok

MultiPoint

ok

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

MultiLinestring

ok

nyi

nyi

ok

nyi

nyi

nyi

ok

nyi

nyi

MultiPolygon

ok

nyi

nyi

ok

ok

ok

nyi

ok

ok

ok

Variant

ok

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

nyi

[Note] Note

In this status matrix above: columns are types of first parameter and rows are types of second parameter. So a point can be checked to be covered by a polygon, but not vice versa.

Complexity

Linear

See also
[Note] Note

The difference with the within algorithm is that this algorithm checks the border by default

Examples

Checks if the first geometry is inside or on border the second geometry

#include <iostream>

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

namespace bg = boost::geometry; 1

int main()
{
    // Checks if the first geometry is inside or on border the second geometry.
    bg::model::polygon<bg::model::d2::point_xy<double> > poly1;
    bg::read_wkt("POLYGON((0 2,0 3,2 4,1 2,0 2))", poly1);
    bg::model::polygon<bg::model::d2::point_xy<double> > poly2;
    bg::read_wkt("POLYGON((0 4,3 4,2 2,0 1,0 4))", poly2);
    bool check_covered = bg::covered_by(poly1, poly2);
    if (check_covered) {
         std::cout << "Covered: Yes" << std::endl;
    } else {
        std::cout << "Covered: No" << std::endl;
    }

    bg::model::polygon<bg::model::d2::point_xy<double> > poly3;
    bg::read_wkt("POLYGON((-1 -1,-3 -4,-7 -7,-4 -3,-1 -1))", poly3);
    check_covered = bg::covered_by(poly1, poly3);
    if (check_covered) {
         std::cout << "Covered: Yes" << std::endl;
    } else {
        std::cout << "Covered: No" << std::endl;
    }

    // This should return true since both polygons are same, so they are lying on each other.
    check_covered = bg::covered_by(poly1, poly1);
    if (check_covered) {
         std::cout << "Covered: Yes" << std::endl;
    } else {
        std::cout << "Covered: No" << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

1

Convenient namespace alias

Output:

Covered: Yes

covered_by

Covered: No
Covered: Yes

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