FIX: boundary attachment arc direction#2658
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Make the boundary attachment method more robust by iterating through and checking the forward/backward directions for the shortest path. Making sure to check closing upon the ring itself and iterate through other line attachment options.
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Cycling to pick up #2659 |
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This certainly makes the code easier to read! I also learned about a new module as I wasn't familiar with bisect.
I think I'm confused about the need to take the shortest route around the edge.
For the basic case with one linestring: if you go forward, you always get an exterior polygon, which may fill up most of the map. If you go backwards, you get the inverse polygon, but it's identified as an interior. So it will get inverted later on, and you end up with the same polygon as if you went forward.
So was the problem case one that should have been an interior contained within a polygon formed from a different linestring? If so, shouldn't the "find the next edge thing" logic have found the start of that outer linestring before going all the way round?
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| boundary = self.ccw_boundary if is_ccw else self.cw_boundary | ||
| perimeter = boundary.length | ||
| threshold = self.threshold |
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Do we have it documented anywhere what self.threshold is? I have not previously known about it.
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👀 apparently not! I thought we did, but I don't see a docstring on it immediately. It is a useful tool though when trying to make lines look smoother. I did add an example using it in my other adaptive-resampling PR because I think that illustrates the point quite well when it is symmetric and shows you what different values will do.
| if not corners: | ||
| # No boundary corners on the closing arc. Insert a | ||
| # midpoint on the shorter arc so the ring has a point | ||
| # on the boundary (needed for correct winding). Skip | ||
| # when the arc has zero length (start == end). | ||
| d_fwd = (d_ring_start - d_end) % perimeter | ||
| if d_fwd > 0: | ||
| if d_fwd <= perimeter / 2: | ||
| d_mid = (d_end + d_fwd / 2) % perimeter | ||
| else: | ||
| d_mid = (d_end - (perimeter - d_fwd) / 2) % perimeter | ||
| mid_pt = boundary.interpolate(d_mid) | ||
| ring_coords.append((mid_pt.x, mid_pt.y)) |
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Could this be done within arc_corners? Since it already has the check on which route is shortest there wouldn't be too much to add in there. Also I got myself a bit confused trying to map "start" <==> "to", "end" <==> "from" in my head, so having all that similar logic together might make it easier to follow.
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Yes, let me think about this some more and how to consolidate it.
| if d_fwd_close <= perimeter / 2: | ||
| mid_d = (d_end + d_fwd_close / 2) % perimeter | ||
| else: | ||
| mid_d = (d_end - (perimeter - d_fwd_close) / 2) % perimeter | ||
| mid_pt = boundary.interpolate(mid_d) | ||
| ring_coords.append((mid_pt.x, mid_pt.y)) |
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Should this be skipped if the start and end are in the same place, similar to the case where there are no remaining lines?
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This also gives a big improvement on the left panel from #2584 (comment), though it's still not quite there 
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Thanks for adding that other example here too. I can try and investigate that specific case some more and see if there is another condition we can add to capture that as well. It again looks like something where we are closing/adding points in wrong locations. Your comments actually got me to thinking, I wonder if we could pass some of this information into I'll have a think about some of this and experiment around to see if there is a potential for any simplification, or if it is really just pushing the same complicated logic around to a different place. |
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Previously
_attach_lines_to_boundaryalways connected projected LineString endpoints by walking forward around the boundary, even when the shorter path went backward. For cut lines that split large polygons near the middle of a boundary edge (e.g. ObliqueMercator over Alaska/Russia), this caused the ring to trace ~98% of the perimeter instead of ~2%, producing a polygon that is the complement of the intended shape — an inside-out land or ocean feature.Additionally, it had the possibility of adding a midpoint on the far edge boundary while doing that tracing, even though the two endpoints were not actually on the boundary. So the linestring should really be closed with itself and not attached to the boundary. So I've added in an extra check to make sure that we are only adding boundary points/attaching when we are within the threshold of the boundary, not in the middle of the domain.
This is a pretty major overhaul of the
_attach_line_to_boundaryfunction to try and make the intent a little more clear and improve the performance some as well. It is largely the same logic, just refactored with one fix to choose the shortest walk direction. This may fix more cases because it is a pretty low-level thing that is done a lot, but this specifically addresses #2650.Fixes #2650