Looks to be free for non-commerical use.

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/gpc/

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Judd Taylor <[email protected]>wrote:

> I have an interface to the GPC polygon clipping library for PDL.
> Unfortunately, GPU isn't GPL. We've had to buy a commercial license to use
> it, so it's not really a candidate for the PDL core...
>
> -Judd
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> ________________________________________
> From: Chris Marshall [[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 1:55 PM
> To: Steven Lembark
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Perldl] Geometry, anyone?
>
> PDL-2.4.10 and later include a pnpoly routine which may
> be of use:
>
>  pdldoc pnpoly
> Module PDL::Image2D
>  pnpoly
>    'points in a polygon' selection from a 2-D piddle
>
>      $mask = pnpoly($x, $y, $px, $py);
>
>    For a closed polygon determined by the sequence of points in {$py,$py}
>    the output of pnpoly is a mask corresponding to whether or not each
>    coordinate (x,y) in the set of test points, {$x,$y}, is in the interior
>    of the polygon. This is the 'points in a polygon' algorithm from
>    <http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/wrf/Research/Short_Notes/pnpoly.html
> >
>    and vectorized for PDL by Karl Glazebrook.
>
>      # define a 3-sided polygon (a triangle)
>      $px = pdl( 3, 20, 34 );
>      $py = pdl( 3, 20,  3 );
>
>      $img = zeros(40, 40);  # create test image
>      $x = $img->xvals;      # get x pixel coords
>      $y = $img->yvals;      # get y pixel coords
>
>      # $tri is 0 everywhere except for points in polygon interior
>      $tri = pnpoly($x,$y,$px,$py);
>
> As for more, PDL has a lot of tools to make such
> computations work (implementable and with good
> performance).  The PDL home page is a good place
> to start for more information: http://pdl.perl.org
>
> --Chris
>
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Craig DeForest
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There is a very nice algorithm in Preparata and Shamos ("Computational
> Geometry").  I, for one, would love to have a PDL::PlanarGeometry package
> built, to treat 2xN PDLs as collections of points on the plane.  Nice
> algorithms to start with would include:
> >
> >        - area
> >        - hull
> >        - Voronoi
> >        - delaunay
> >        - polygon union
> >        - polygon intersection
> >        - polygon clean
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 2, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Steven Lembark wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The nice people at Oracle implement all of their OpenGIS
> >> "contained within" geometry operators using bounding boxes
> >> only. This makes it impossible to select non-rectangular
> >> areas from a map.
> >>
> >> Google has gotten me nowhere looking for a PDL geometric
> >> operator library that (ideally) works on OpenGIS format
> >> data (WKB, WKT) or at least implements a "contains"
> >> operator suitable for a point and polygon.
> >>
> >> I am not trying to plot anything, just get a boolean
> >> outcome for, say, which state contains a given lat+long
> >> or which hospital is closesest to a given point.
> >>
> >> Checking CPAN for PDL+GIS gives me PDL::GIS::Proj, which
> >> isn't about GIS and is also pretty much dead.
> >>
> >> Q: Any suggestions for an implemention for selecting
> >>   which of a (largeish) list of polygons contain a
> >>   given point?
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> --
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