rHEALPix DGGS Simple Feature functions

This library contains functions for evaluating Simple Feature relations between DGGS Cells and sets of these. A wrapped version of this library is available as an RDFLib extension for GeoSPARQL queries: geosparql-dggs.

Installation

Coming to PyPI.

This package depends on the rhealpix-geo package to represent valid sets of Cells, and perform low level operations required to implement these functions.

Use

These functions are implemented in the file rhealsf/dggs_functions.py

This means they can be used like this (full working script):

from rhealsf import sfContains, sfEquals, sfDisjoint, sfOverlaps, sfWithin, sfTouches, sfIntersects

a = "R1"
b = "R11"
c = "R2"
d = "R1 R2"
e = "R2 R3"

print(f"a contains b, expected True, returns: {sfContains(a, b)}")
print(f"b contains a, expected False, returns: {sfContains(b, a)}")
print(f"a equals a, expected True, returns: {sfEquals(a, a)}")
print(f"a equals b, expected False, returns: {sfEquals(a, b)}")
print(f"a disjoint b, expected False, returns: {sfDisjoint(a, b)}")
print(f"b disjoint c, expected True, returns: {sfDisjoint(b, c)}")
print(f"a overlaps d, expected False (within), returns: {sfOverlaps(a, d)}")
print(f"d overlaps e, expected True, returns: {sfOverlaps(d, e)}")
print(f"c within d, expected True, returns: {sfWithin(c, d)}")
print(f"d within c, expected False, returns: {sfWithin(d, c)}")
print(f"a touches b, expected False, returns: {sfTouches(a, b)}")
print(f"a touches c, expected True, returns: {sfTouches(a, c)}")
print(f"a intersects b, expected True, returns: {sfIntersects(a, b)}")
print(f"b intersects c, expected False, returns: {sfIntersects(b, c)}")

Function Definitions

sfEqual: Two sets of cells are equal if they have the same identifier.
sfWithin: One set of cells (A) is within some other set of cells (B) if the addition of A's cells to B results in a set of cells equal to B, where A is not equal to B.
sfContains: One set of cells (A) is contains some other set of cells (B) if the addition of A's cells to B results in a set of cells equal to A, where A is not equal to B.
sfIntersects: One set of cells (A) intersects some other set of cells (B) where they share any two cells, or any cell in A is the parent or child of a cell in B, or any cell in A or B touches.
sfTouches: One set of cells (A) touches some other set of cells (B) where the cells meet at an edge, or vertex.
sfDisjoint: One set of cells (A) is disjoint with some other set of cells (B) where they do not share any two cells, no cell in A is the parent or child of a cell in B, and no cells in A and B touch.
sfOverlaps: One set of cells (A) overlaps some other set of cells (B) where the addition of A's cells to B results in a set of cells different from A and B, and A and B are not disjoint and do not touch.

Testing

All tests are in tests/ and implemented using unittest.

There are sets of tests for each of the Simple Feature functions.

Contributing

Via GitHub, Issues & Pull Requests:

• <https://github.com/surroundaustralia/rhealpix-sf

License

This code is licensed with the BSD 3-clause license as per LICENSE.

Citation

@software{https://github.com/surroundaustralia/rhealpix-sf,
  author = {{David Habgood}},
  title = {Simple Feature functions for rHEALPix DGGS},
  version = {0.0.1},
  date = {2021},
  url = {https://github.com/surroundaustralia/rhealpix-sf}
}

Contact

Creator & maintainer:
David Habgood
Application Architect
SURROUND Australia Pty Ltd
david.habgood@surroundaustrlaia.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3322-1868