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Sept. 23, 2023, 4:32 a.m. |

Simon Willison's Weblog simonwillison.net

TG: Polygon indexing


TG is a brand new geospatial library by Josh Baker, author of the Tile38 in-memory spatial server (kind of a geospatial Redis). TG is written in pure C and delivered as a single C file, reminiscent of the SQLite amalgamation.

TG looks really interesting. It implements almost the exact subset of geospatial functionality that I find most useful: point-in-polygon, intersect, WKT, WKB, and GeoJSON - all with no additional dependencies.

The most interesting thing about it is …

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