sphersgeo 0.1.1

object-oriented spherical geometry

sphersgeo

sphersgeo is an object-oriented spherical geometry package written in Rust with Python accessor classes and methods.

[!IMPORTANT] sphersgeo is still in development and does not currently implement all the robust functionality provided by planar geometry packages such as geo or Shapely.

[!NOTE] Intersections between geometries are NOT rigorous; the .intersection() function will ONLY return the lower order of geometry being compared, and does NOT handle degenerate cases / touching geometries.

pip install sphersgeo

Planar geometry packages typically classify geometries into points, linestrings (also called polylines), and polygons (along with multi-geometry collections: multi-points, multi-linestrings / multi-polylines, and multi-polygons). The spherical geometry analogues to these are spherical points, arcstrings, and spherical polygons.

Planar	Spherical	Planar Collection	Spherical Collection
Point	SphericalPoint	MultiPoint	MultiSphericalPoint
LineString	ArcString	MultiLineString	MultiArcString
Polygon	SphericalPolygon	MultiPolygon	MultiSphericalPolygon

Sources and Further Reading

• Toddhunter, I. (1886). Article 99. In Spherical Trigonometry: For the Use of Colleges and Schools (pp. 73–74). print.
• Miller, Robert D. Computing the area of a spherical polygon. Graphics Gems IV. p132. 1994. Academic Press. doi:10.5555/180895.180907. print.
• Spinielli, Enrico. 2014. “Understanding Great Circle Arcs Intersection Algorithm.” October 19, 2014. https://enrico.spinielli.net/posts/2014-10-19-understanding-great-circle-arcs.
• M.A, Jayaram & Fleyeh, Hasan. (2016). Convex Hulls in Image Processing: A Scoping Review. American Journal of Intelligent Systems. 2016. 48-58. 10.5923/j.ajis.20160602.03. pdf.
• Klain, D. A. (2019). A probabilistic proof of the spherical excess formula (No. arXiv:1909.04505). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1909.04505
• spherical_geometry
• s2geometry