Hi all, I have read (not all) shapely documentation and I have found "object.envelope" method: it "returns a representation of the point or smallest rectangular polygon that contains the object."
I have tested it, and it seems to me that it returns not the smallest rectangular polygon that contains the object, but the smallest rectangular polygon - whose sides are parallel to x and y axes - that contains the object. In other words the bounding box. Am I wrong? I have used this code: polygon = Polygon([(76, 840), (144, 962), (239, 929),(136, 784)]) print polygon.envelope I obtain this: POLYGON ((76.0000000000000000 784.0000000000000000, 239.0000000000000000 784.0000000000000000, 239.0000000000000000 962.0000000000000000, 76.0000000000000000 962.0000000000000000, 76.0000000000000000 784.0000000000000000)) I read this documentation page: http://gispython.org/shapely/docs/1.2/manual.html Thank you, a ----- Andrea Borruso ---------------------------------------------------- email: [email protected] website: http://blog.spaziogis.it my 2.0 life: http://aborruso.spaziogis.it feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Tanto 38° 7' 48" N, 13° 21' 9" E ---------------------------------------------------- -- View this message in context: http://community-gispython-org-community-projects.955323.n3.nabble.com/Bounding-Box-and-Minimum-Bounding-Rectangle-tp1013742p1014003.html Sent from the Community -- gispython.org community projects mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
