[geos-devel] Unary Union (was: rgeos interface to R classes)

2010-02-05 Thread strk
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:48:57AM -0800, Martin Davis wrote: The technique of using buffer(0) to union polygons is now deprecated in favour of using Unary Union (Geometry.union() - not sure what the exact GEOS signature is). Unary Union is usually faster and more robust than the previous

Re: [geos-devel] Unary Union (was: rgeos interface to R classes)

2010-02-05 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, strk wrote: On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:48:57AM -0800, Martin Davis wrote: The technique of using buffer(0) to union polygons is now deprecated in favour of using Unary Union (Geometry.union() - not sure what the exact GEOS signature is). Unary Union is usually faster and

Re: [geos-devel] Unary Union (was: rgeos interface to R classes)

2010-02-05 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Roger Bivand roger.biv...@nhh.no wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, strk wrote: On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:48:57AM -0800, Martin Davis wrote: The technique of using buffer(0) to union polygons is now deprecated in favour of using Unary Union (Geometry.union() - not