A MULTIPOLYGON is just a collection of POLYGONs. If a point lies on the surface (not in a hole) of any of the polygons,
contains or within will return true.
If you're sure your multipolygon A does indeed have a hole exactly where your multipolygon B is, then contains or within
should just return B.
If your forest polygon (A, right?) is not too large, can you post the WKT of
the polygon and your query point here?
Cheers,
Kevin
Jorge wrote:
Hello,
I have a question. If a multipolygon has inner "holes", are these holes
part of the multipolygon? I mean, if I want to check if a given point is
inside of a multipolygon (using "within" or "contains") and this point
is in the hole, should "within" and "contains" return "true"?
Being more specific, I have a multypolygon that represents a forest, in
a map. This multipolygon has a hole inside. Then, I have another
multipolygon that fits exactly into the hole, and represents an airport.
If I select a point from the airport, this point is inside the second
multipolygon, of course, but should it be inside the first one too?
Because my problem is that I have to decide if the point is part of the
airport or part of the forest, and "within" and "contains" methods
return both multipolygon, instead of only the second one (the airport).
Maybe is more clear with an image:
http://www.nebulared.com/tmp_geo/multipolygon.jpg
Thanks in advance!
Regards
Jorge
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