Hello Steve, If you can define a tolerance within which geometries should be treated as coincident you could use Geometry.buffer and then test for intersection etc.
Michael On 15 November 2012 03:07, Steve Mitchell <stevecmitch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Trying to find the right way to test line overlap when the points are not > common. I have a set of lines containing points collected from a GPS > receiver. I need to find which of those lines travel a particular stretch of > the route. The functions geometryA.contains(geometryB) and > geometryB.within(geometryA) only work if all the points in geometryB equal a > subset of points in geometryA. > > How can find the match that I need if the points are not equal? I'm sure > this is a common problem people need to solve, I just don't know the right > steps to get there. Even geometryA.intersects(geometryB) is unreliable > because in some cases geometryA and geometryB have no individual points in > common even though both go down the same stretch of road. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, > SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. > Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov > _______________________________________________ > GeoTools-GT2-Users mailing list > GeoTools-GT2-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ GeoTools-GT2-Users mailing list GeoTools-GT2-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users