geometry/doc/reference/algorithms/covered_by.qbk
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[/============================================================================
Boost.Geometry (aka GGL, Generic Geometry Library)
Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Barend Gehrels, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Mateusz Loskot, London, UK.
Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Bruno Lalande, Paris, France.
Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License,
Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
=============================================================================/]
[include generated/covered_by_status.qbk]
[note In this status matrix above: columns are types of first parameter
and rows are types of second parameter. So a point can be checked to be
covered by a polygon, but not vice versa.
]
[note convert is not defined within OGC or ISO. However, both PostGIS
and Oracle contain an algorithm with the same name and the same functionality.
See the [@http://www.postgis.org/docs/ST_CoveredBy.html PostGIS documentation].
]
[heading Complexity]
Linear
[heading See also]
* [link geometry.reference.algorithms.within within]
[note The difference with the `within` algorithm is that this algorithm checks the
border by default
]