Use Case ONTO21: Maximum Distance

[ar-chad]

Use Case ONTO21

Maximum Distance

As a GeoSPARQL data user I would like to measure the maximum distance between two geometries - distance between their farthest points.

If geometries are the same, the function will return the longest distance between the two farthest points in this geometry.

Distance is measured in the units of the spatial reference system.

For the POLYGON ((0 1 0, 1 1 0, 1 0 0, 0 0 0, 0 1 0)) and the POLYGON ((2 3 0, 2 2 0, 3 2 0, 4 3 0, 2 3 0)) the value is 5.

Function signature:

maximumDistance(geometry: ogc:geomLiteral, geometry: ogc:geomLiteral): xsd:double

Actor: GeoSPARQL data user (human or software agent querying RDF dataset with GeoSPARQL)

Preconditions

Features and Geometries with 2D and 3D representations are present in a dataset to be queried. The maximum distance function is discoverable.

Postconditions

A SPARQL query can be executed that includes a function to return maximum from a given geometry to another given geometry - distance between their farthest points. The results of the query are known to be true or false in 2D and 3D.

Steps

Actor: discovers maximum distance function implemented by the system
Actor: executes a SPARQL query containing maximum distance function with two geometries as arguments.
System: returns a SPARQL result with a maximum distance between geometries - distance between their farthest points.

[aothms]

Maybe it would also be beneficial to know where on the input geometries this distance is realized. So maybe the API could also return a line segment that connects input A to B. If you only want the length you get the length of that line segment. If you want to know more about the points on the input geometries, you inspect the points of that segment.

[ar-chad]

@aothms thank you for your comment. I have just added #601 which, in my understanding, addresses your point.

#600 is the issue that covers minimum distance accordingly.