cleanGeometry.sql

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-- 
-- $Id: cleanGeometry.sql 2008-04-24 10:30Z Dr. Horst Duester $
--
-- cleanGeometry - remove self- and ring-selfintersections from 
--                 input Polygon geometries 
-- http://www.kappasys.ch
-- Copyright 2008 Dr. Horst Duester
-- Version 1.0
-- contact: horst dot duester at kappasys dot ch
--
-- Updated by Matthew Petroff (2013-05)
--
-- This is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify it under
-- the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. See the COPYING file.
-- This software is without any warrenty and you use it at your own risk
--  
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CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION cleanGeometry(geometry)
  RETURNS geometry AS
$BODY$DECLARE
  inGeom ALIAS for $1;
  outGeom geometry;
  tmpLinestring geometry;

Begin
  
  outGeom := NULL;
  
-- Clean Process for Polygon 
  IF (GeometryType(inGeom) = 'POLYGON' OR GeometryType(inGeom) = 'MULTIPOLYGON') THEN

-- Only process if geometry is not valid, 
-- otherwise put out without change
    if not ST_isValid(inGeom) THEN
    
-- create nodes at all self-intersecting lines by union the polygon boundaries
-- with the startingpoint of the boundary.  
      tmpLinestring := st_union(st_multi(st_boundary(inGeom)),st_pointn(st_boundary(inGeom),1));
      outGeom = st_buildarea(tmpLinestring);      
      IF (GeometryType(inGeom) = 'MULTIPOLYGON') THEN      
        RETURN st_multi(outGeom);
      ELSE
        RETURN outGeom;
      END IF;
    else    
      RETURN inGeom;
    END IF;


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Clean Process for LINESTRINGS, self-intersecting parts of linestrings 
-- will be divided into multiparts of the mentioned linestring 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ELSIF (GeometryType(inGeom) = 'LINESTRING') THEN
    
-- create nodes at all self-intersecting lines by union the linestrings
-- with the startingpoint of the linestring.  
    outGeom := st_union(st_multi(inGeom),st_pointn(inGeom,1));
    RETURN outGeom;
  ELSIF (GeometryType(inGeom) = 'MULTILINESTRING') THEN 
    outGeom := multi(st_union(st_multi(inGeom),st_pointn(inGeom,1)));
    RETURN outGeom;
  ELSE 
    RAISE NOTICE 'The input type % is not supported',GeometryType(inGeom);
    RETURN inGeom;
  END IF;	  
End;$BODY$
  LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;