Alexandre,

Overlap has a very particular meaning. See 
http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ST_Overlaps.html

Your 2 polygons intersects well, but they do not "overlap" because the 
intersection is equal to geometry 1... 

Best regards,

Even

Le Friday 23 April 2010 21:29:02 Sorokine, Alexandre, vous avez écrit :
> Hi!
>
> I noticed that Geometry.Overlaps in ogr sometimes returns "no overlap"
> while intersection is not empty.  For example:
>
> Geometry 1:POLYGON ((-1 -1,-1 1,1 1,1 -1,-1 -1))
>   boundaryLINESTRING (-1 -1,-1 1,1 1,1 -1,-1 -1)
> Geometry 2:POLYGON ((-2 -2,-2 2,2 2,2 -2,-2 -2))
>   boundaryLINESTRING (-2 -2,-2 2,2 2,2 -2,-2 -2)
> Overlaps? NO
> Intrsects? YES
> Intersection: POLYGON ((-1 -1,-1 1,1 1,1 -1,-1 -1))
>
> This contradicts description of the overlap method in geos or am I doing
> something wrong?
>
> The Java code to reproduce the condition attached.
> --
> Alex Sorokine
> sorok...@ornl.gov
>
> ==== cut here ====
>
> import org.gdal.ogr.Geometry;
> import org.gdal.ogr.ogr;
>
> public class OverlapTest {
>
>       public static void main(String[] args) {
>
>               Geometry lr1 = new Geometry(ogr.wkbLinearRing);
>               lr1.AddPoint_2D(-1.0, -1.0);
>               lr1.AddPoint_2D(-1.0,  1.0);
>               lr1.AddPoint_2D( 1.0,  1.0);
>               lr1.AddPoint_2D( 1.0, -1.0);
>               lr1.AddPoint_2D(-1.0, -1.0);
>               Geometry geom1 = new Geometry(ogr.wkbPolygon);
>               geom1.AddGeometry(lr1);
>               System.out.println("Geometry 1:" + geom1.ExportToWkt());
>               System.out.println("  boundary" + 
> geom1.GetBoundary().ExportToWkt());
>
>               Geometry lr2 = new Geometry(ogr.wkbLinearRing);
>               lr2.AddPoint_2D(-2.0, -2.0);
>               lr2.AddPoint_2D(-2.0,  2.0);
>               lr2.AddPoint_2D( 2.0,  2.0);
>               lr2.AddPoint_2D( 2.0, -2.0);
>               lr2.AddPoint_2D(-2.0, -2.0);
>               Geometry geom2 = new Geometry(ogr.wkbPolygon);
>               geom2.AddGeometry(lr2);
>               System.out.println("Geometry 2:" + geom2.ExportToWkt());
>               System.out.println("  boundary" + 
> geom2.GetBoundary().ExportToWkt());
>
>               System.out.print("Overlaps? ");
>               if (geom1.Overlaps(geom2)) System.out.println("YES");
>               else System.out.println("NO");
>
>               System.out.print("Intrsects? ");
>               if (geom1.Intersect(geom2)) System.out.println("YES");
>               else System.out.println("NO");
>
>               System.out.println("Intersection: " +
> geom1.Intersection(geom2).ExportToWkt()); }
>
> }
>
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