Uh, yeah... I guess I should have just tried it instead of reading the documentation: http://toblerity.org/shapely/manual.html#object.difference
"Shapely can not represent the difference between an object and a lower dimensional object (such as the difference between a polygon and a line or point) as a single object, and in these cases the difference method returns a copy of the object named self." On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Sean Gillies <sean.gill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Sorry to be so late. Does the code at prompt 18 in > > http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/sgillies/7960d778f32ae8971053 > > help? > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.v.r...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> One can find the intersection between any geometry and a polygon to >> effectively "clip" the geometry to be within the polygon. However, it >> doesn't seem possible to "punch out" a region that intersects a non-polygon >> geometry such as a line string. The difference() method just returns "self" >> in those situations (and is documented as such). >> >> Is there another way to get what I want? >> >> Thanks! >> Ben Root >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Community mailing list >> Community@lists.gispython.org >> http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> > > > -- > Sean Gillies > > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > Community@lists.gispython.org > http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >
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