Re: [postgis-users] Need help detecting lassos

2012-02-18 Thread pcreso
more polygons are returned. This should identify the self-crossing linestrings, as only such linestrings can form a closed polygon boundary. HTH,   Brent Wood --- On Sun, 2/19/12, Hilton Long wrote: From: Hilton Long Subject: [postgis-users] Need help detecting lassos To: postgis-u

[postgis-users] Need help detecting lassos

2012-02-18 Thread Hilton Long
I'd like to be able to detect all line loops that are not closed, but where one end of the line loops around and terminates on another line (a lasso). Querying a table containing several of these returns no ST_IsClosed=true, or ST_IsValid=false, or ST_IsSimple=false. Ultimately, I'd like to spli