com.vividsolutions.jts.operation.linemerge
Class LineMerger

java.lang.Object
  com.vividsolutions.jts.operation.linemerge.LineMerger

public class LineMerger
extends Object

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.

Version:

1.7

Constructor Summary

LineMerger()
Creates a new line merger.

Method Summary

void	add(Collection geometries) Adds a collection of Geometries to be processed.
void	add(Geometry geometry) Adds a Geometry to be processed.
Collection	getMergedLineStrings() Gets the LineStrings created by the merging process.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

LineMerger

public LineMerger()

Creates a new line merger.

Method Detail

add

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 to be line-merged

add

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 - the geometries to be line-merged

getMergedLineStrings

public Collection getMergedLineStrings()

Gets the LineStrings created by the merging process.

Returns:

the collection of merged LineStrings