Oracle's understanding is the same as mine:

<http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14255/ sdo_operat.htm#i77653>
On 28-May-07, at 7:41 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:

Is this the Oracle defn also? I had always interpreted DWithin to mean "within distance of", so that

DWIthin(A,B,100) was functionally equivalent to Distance(A,B) < 100

P

On 27-May-07, at 2:23 PM, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:


Further info from Peter Vretanos (FES 1.0.0 spec editor):

"According to the BNF in the Cat 1.0 specification DWithin tests to see whether geometry A is completely within a certain distance of geometry
B.

I interpret this to mean a "buffer" query. That is you create a buffer around A at the specified distance and then do a WITHIN (as defined in
SFSQL) between this new buffer-expanded geometry (A') and the test
geometry B. If B is completely within A' then the operator evaluates to
true

BEYOND is the opposite of DWITHIN.   If B is completely outside of A'
then the operator evaluates to true."

Cheers

..Tom

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