Thursday 27 December 2007

SQL Server 2008 Geography: STExteriorRing, STInteriorRingN

MSDN describes STExteriorRing() with this query
DECLARE @g geometry;
SET @g = geometry::STGeomFromText('POLYGON((0 0, 3 0, 3 3, 0 3, 0 0),(2 2, 2 1, 1 1, 1 2, 2 2))', 0);
SELECT @g.STExteriorRing().ToString();

which returns
LINESTRING (0 0, 3 0, 3 3, 0 0, 0 0)

Here it is visually -- the Green line is the original geometry (one square inside another), the thicker Blue line shows that STExteriorRing and the Orange line shows STInteriorRing(1):
DECLARE @g geometry;
SET @g = geometry::STGeomFromText('POLYGON((0 0, 3 0, 3 3, 0 3, 0 0),(2 2, 2 1, 1 1, 1 2, 2 2))', 0);
SELECT @g.STExteriorRing(), 0.3 as thickness, 'Blue' as color
UNION ALL
SELECT @g.STInteriorRingN(1), 0.2 as thickness, 'Orange' as color
UNION ALL
SELECT @g, 0.1 as thickness, 'Green' as color



Interestingly, this query exposed a bug in Geoquery where the Exterior and Interior rings were being 'joined' (ie there was no "pen up" occuring as the shapes were generated) -- causing the dodgy looking lines on the world map in the last post. Here's the "fixed" map drawing...

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