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Geo::Surface

A surface description.

 Geo::Surface
   is a Geo::Shape

 my $island = Geo::Surface->new($outer, $lake1, $lake2);

In this context, a "surface" is defined as one filled area with possible enclosures in one projection system.

Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Geo::Shape.

Extends "METHODS" in Geo::Shape.

Extends "Constructors" in Geo::Shape.

When called as instance method, some defaults are copied from the object where the call is made upon.

You may either provide a Math::Polygon::Surface $surface, or a LIST of lines. In the latter case, the first line is the $outer polygon of the surface, and the other are all $inner enclosures: lakes. Lines are and Geo::Line, Math::Polygon objects, or ARRAY of points.

If no projection is specified, then the projection of the first Geo-encoded line will be used.

 -Option--Defined in--Default
  proj    Geo::Shape  see Geo::Proj::defaultProjection()
    

Extends "Attributes" in Geo::Shape.

$obj->geoInner()
Returns a LIST of enclosed polygons, converted to Geo::Line objects.
$obj->geoOuter()
Returns the outer polygon as Geo::Line object.
$obj->inner()
Returns a LIST of enclosed Math::Polygon objects.
$obj->outer()
Returns the outer Math::Polygon.
$obj->proj()
Inherited, see "Attributes" in Geo::Shape
$obj->proj4()
Inherited, see "Attributes" in Geo::Shape

Extends "Projections" in Geo::Shape.

$obj->in(<$label|'utm'>)
Inherited, see "Projections" in Geo::Shape
$obj->projectOn($nick, @points)
Inherited, see "Projections" in Geo::Shape

Extends "Geometry" in Geo::Shape.

$obj->area()
Returns the area enclosed by the outer polygon, minus the erea of the enclosures. Only useful when the points are in some orthogonal projection.
$obj->bbox()
The bounding box of outer surface polygon.
$obj->bboxCenter()
Inherited, see "Geometry" in Geo::Shape
$obj->bboxRing([$xmin, $ymin, $xmax, $ymax, [$proj]])
Inherited, see "Geometry" in Geo::Shape
$obj->distance($object, [$unit])
Inherited, see "Geometry" in Geo::Shape
$obj->perimeter()
The length of the outer polygon. Only useful in a orthogonal coordinate systems.

Extends "Display" in Geo::Shape.

$obj->deg2dm($degrees, $pos, $neg)
Inherited, see "Display" in Geo::Shape
$obj->deg2dms($degrees, $pos, $neg)
Inherited, see "Display" in Geo::Shape
$obj->dms2deg($dms)
Inherited, see "Display" in Geo::Shape
$obj->toString([$projection])
Returns a string representation of the line, which is also used for stringification.

Extends "OVERLOAD" in Geo::Shape.

Inherited, see "OVERLOAD" in Geo::Shape
Inherited, see "OVERLOAD" in Geo::Shape

When Geo::Line objects are used to compose a surface, each of them must be filled. Representation of rivers and such do not belong in a surface description.
Only a subset of all objects can be used in the distance calculation. The limitation is purely caused by lack of time to implement this.

This module is part of Geo-Point distribution version 0.96, built on January 21, 2014. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/geo/ All modules in this suite: "Geo::Point", "Geo::Proj4", "Geo::WKT", "Math::Polygon", "Geo::GML", "Geo::ISO19139", "Geo::EOP", "Geo::Format::Envisat", and "Geo::Format::Landsat".

Please post questions or ideas to the mailinglist at http://geo-perl@list.hut.fi

Copyrights 2005-2014 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html