[OSM-dev] Determining if two linestrings are "similar"

[Paweł Paprota]

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