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geos.GEOSDifference ⇒ GEOSGeometry

Returns the difference of two geometries A and B: the set of points that fall within A but not within B.

Kind: global property of geos
Returns: GEOSGeometry - A newly allocated geometry of the difference. NULL on exception. Caller is responsible for freeing with GEOSGeom_destroy().

ParamTypeDescription
gaGEOSGeometrythe base geometry
gbGEOSGeometrythe geometry to subtract from it

geos.GEOSDifferencePrec ⇒ GEOSGeometry

Returns the difference of two geometries A and B: the set of points that fall within A but not within B. All the vertices of the output geometry must fall on the grid defined by the gridSize, and the output will be a valid geometry.

Kind: global property of geos
Returns: GEOSGeometry - A newly allocated geometry of the difference. NULL on exception. Caller is responsible for freeing with GEOSGeom_destroy().

ParamTypeDescription
gaGEOSGeometryone of the geometries
gbGEOSGeometrythe other geometry
gridSizenumberthe cell size of the precision grid

geos.GEOSDifferencePrec_r ⇒ GEOSGeometry

Returns the difference of two geometries A and B: the set of points that fall within A but not within B. All the vertices of the output geometry must fall on the grid defined by the gridSize, and the output will be a valid geometry.

Kind: global property of geos
Returns: GEOSGeometry - A newly allocated geometry of the difference. NULL on exception. Caller is responsible for freeing with GEOSGeom_destroy().

ParamTypeDescription
handleGEOSContextHandle_t-
g1GEOSGeometryone of the geometries
g2GEOSGeometrythe other geometry
gridSizenumberthe cell size of the precision grid

geos.GEOSDifference_r ⇒ GEOSGeometry

Returns the difference of two geometries A and B: the set of points that fall within A but not within B.

Kind: global property of geos
Returns: GEOSGeometry - A newly allocated geometry of the difference. NULL on exception. Caller is responsible for freeing with GEOSGeom_destroy().

ParamTypeDescription
handleGEOSContextHandle_t-
g1GEOSGeometrythe base geometry
g2GEOSGeometrythe geometry to subtract from it