Let me guess - the two polygons causing this problem had a collinear
edge which crosses the cell boundary?
If so, this is the *toughest* situation for the union code to handle
robustly, since it is trying to union along two edges which are almost
collinear, but not quite.
Tough to suggest a fix... One possible way is to do the union of the
orginal polygons first, and then clip - but this may or may not be
possible in your situation.
If all you want is an area result, you could buffer the polys by a very
small amount, union, and then negative-buffer the result.
If you can post examples of the failure case, more ideas might come to
mind...
Brent Wood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure what the problem is here, hopefully someone can help.
>
> I have some polygons cropped to cell boundaries. (select intersection...)
> I want to generate the geomunion of these for each cell, which seems
> straightforward, but GEOS is throwing an error...
>
> select astext(geomunion(track_cell_geom)) from effort_cells3 where cell_id =
> 73721;
> NOTICE: TopologyException: no outgoing dirEdge found
> (168.077,-40.1961,-40.1961)
> ERROR: GEOS union() threw an error!
>
>
>
> Can anyone say what this means & what I need to do to work around it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brent Wood
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