[OSM-dev] Determining if two linestrings are "similar"
Paweł Paprota
ppawel at fastmail.fm
Fri Jan 4 14:44:11 GMT 2013
Hi Andrzej
On 01/04/2013 03:37 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>> If the number of nodes in a way didn't change you could optimize by just
>> comparing them coordinate by coordinate.
>
> I was thinking you could take the maximum of every node's distance
> from the other way. It should yield the same metric as ST_Buffer
> would.
>
I tried that by using ST_MaxDistance but it fails for some cases where
the maximum distance is actually quite large even though the linestrings
are near each other.
Paweł
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