Package geobabel converts geometry types between popular geometry libraries.
Supported geometry types are:
-
Well Known Binary (WKB)
geobabel exists because no single geometry library is perfect. For example:
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github.com/paulmach/orbis a pure Go library with friendly API, excellent support for OpenStreetMap data and MapBox Vector Tiles, but only supports 2D geometries, and has a heavy focus on the commonly-used EPSG:4326 and EPSG:3857 projections. -
github.com/twpayne/go-geomis extremely high performance pure Go library that supports multi-dimensional geometries, multiple encodings, and is projection-agnostic, at the expense of a more complex API and a very limited set of geometric operations. -
github.com/twpayne/go-geosprovides an idiomatic Go API to the huge set of battle-tested geometric operations in the industry-standard GEOS library, at the expense of cgo overhead, C-style memory management, and a focus on 2D geometries.
With geobabel you can combine the best aspects of each library. For example,
you can use a pure Go library like go-geom or orb to represent your
geometries and use a geometric operation that is only available in go-geos.
To geom.T |
To *geos.Geom |
To orb.Geometry |
To WKB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
From geom.T |
n/a | no | yes | yes |
From *geos.Geom |
no | n/a | yes | yes |
From orb.Geometry |
yes | yes | n/a | yes |
| From WKB | yes | yes | yes | n/a |
Note that WKB does not support LinearRings as a top-level geometry type.
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