Martinez-Rueda polygon clipping algorithm

Details

The algorithm is specifically fast and capable of working with polygons of all types: multipolygons (without cascading), polygons with holes, self-intersecting polygons and degenerate polygons with overlapping edges.

Example

Play with it by forking this Codepen

import * as martinez from 'martinez-polygon-clipping';
const gj1 = { "type": "Feature", ..., "geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [x, y], ... ] ]};
const gj2 = { "type": "Feature", ..., "geometry": { "type": "MultiPolygon", "coordinates": [ [ [ [x, y], ...] ] ]};

const intersection = {
  "type": "Feature",
  "properties": { ... },
  "geometry": {
    "type": "Polygon",
    "coordinates": martinez.intersection(gj1.geometry.coordinates, gj2.geometry.coordinates)
  }
};

API

• .intersection(<Geometry>, <Geometry>) => <Geometry>
• .union(<Geometry>, <Geometry>) => <Geometry>
• .diff(<Geometry>, <Geometry>) => <Geometry>
• .xor(<Geometry>, <Geometry>) => <Geometry>

<Geometry> is GeoJSON 'Polygon' or 'MultiPolygon' coordinates structure. <Operation> is an enum of { INTERSECTION: 0, UNION: 1, DIFFERENCE: 2, XOR: 3 } in case you have to decide programmatically which operation do you need

Benchmarks

Hole_Hole
Martinez x 29,530 ops/sec ±1.65% (85 runs sampled)
JSTS x 2,051 ops/sec ±2.62% (85 runs sampled)
- Fastest is Martinez

Asia union
Martinez x 9.19 ops/sec ±3.30% (26 runs sampled)
JSTS x 7.60 ops/sec ±4.24% (23 runs sampled)
- Fastest is Martinez

States clip
Martinez x 227 ops/sec ±1.10% (82 runs sampled)
JSTS x 100 ops/sec ±2.54% (73 runs sampled)
- Fastest is Martinez

Features

The algorithm of Martinez et al. was extended to work with multipolygons without cascading.

Authors

• Alexander Milevski
• Vladimir Ovsyannikov

Based on

• A new algorithm for computing Boolean operations on polygons (2008, 2013) by Francisco Martinez, Antonio Jesus Rueda, Francisco Ramon Feito (and its C++ code)

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2018 Alexander Milevski

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