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[jira] [Resolved] (LUCENE-5771) Review semantics of SpatialOperation predicates

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5771?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

David Smiley resolved LUCENE-5771.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 4.10
                   5.0

> Review semantics of SpatialOperation predicates
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-5771
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5771
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: modules/spatial
>            Reporter: David Smiley
>            Assignee: David Smiley
>             Fix For: 5.0, 4.10
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-5771_SpatialOperation_semantics.patch, LUCENE-5771_SpatialOperation_semantics.patch
>
>
> SpatialOperation (which I wish was named SpatialPredicate) is a bunch of predicates -- methods that return true/false based on a pair of shapes.  Some of them don't seem to be defined in a way consistent with their definitions on ESRI's site:
> http://edndoc.esri.com/arcsde/9.1/general_topics/understand_spatial_relations.htm  (which is linked as a reference, and is in turn equivalent to OGC spec definitions, I believe).
> Problems:
> * the definitions make no mention of needing to have area or not, yet some of our predicates are defined as to require area on either the indexed or query shape.
> * the definitions make a distinction of the boundary of a shape, yet in Lucene-spatial, there is none.  That suggests our predicates are wrongly chosen since there *are* official predicates that are boundary-neutral -- namely "Covers" and "CoveredBy" in lieu of Contains and Within, respectively.  If we don't rename our predicates, we should at least support the correct predicates names!
> * Overlaps appears totally wrong. It should be defined as indexedShape.relate(queryShape) == Intersects  (and thus not Within or Contains or Disjoint).  It's presently defined as the same as Intersects plus the query shape needing area.



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