Class LineMerger

Hierarchy: Object , LineMerger

public class LineMerger

Merges a collection of linear components to form maximal-length linestrings.

Merging stops at nodes of degree 1 or degree 3 or more. In other words, all nodes of degree 2 are merged together. The exception is in the case of an isolated loop, which only has degree-2 nodes. In this case one of the nodes is chosen as a starting point.

The direction of each merged LineString will be that of the majority of the LineStrings from which it was derived.

Any dimension of Geometry is handled - the constituent linework is extracted to form the edges. The edges must be correctly noded; that is, they must only meet at their endpoints. The LineMerger will accept non-noded input but will not merge non-noded edges.

Input lines which are empty or contain only a single unique coordinate are not included in the merging.

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version: 1.7

public LineMerger()

Creates a new line merger.

public void add(Geometry geometry)

Adds a Geometry to be processed. May be called multiple times. Any dimension of Geometry may be added; the constituent linework will be extracted.

Parameters:: geometry - geometry geometry to be line-merged

public void add(Collection geometries)

Adds a collection of Geometries to be processed. May be called multiple times. Any dimension of Geometry may be added; the constituent linework will be extracted.

Parameters:: geometries - geometries the geometries to be line-merged

public Collection getMergedLineStrings()

Gets the LineStrings created by the merging process.

Returns:: the collection of merged LineStrings