Hello
I need to find a possibility to identify upper-left, upper-right, etc.
corners of +/- rectangular polygons. I.e. polygons with guranteed just 4
corners, but with a shape that is typically between a rectangle and a
rhomb. The polygons define the geometry of image boundaries ("image
footprints"). But it cannot be guaranteed which point in the polygon
corresponds to which corner since the order of points during geometry
creation is unknown.
One idea was to use ST_ConvexHull(geometry) since for this very simple
polygons the convex hull seems to be identical with the geometry. It
looked to me that the order in this convex hull was:
lower-right, lower-left, upper-left, upper-right
Does anybody know if this order is always like that or can this order
change? Would anybody know another method to identify which point of the
polygon corresponds to which corner?
Regards
Armin
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