Geometry Engine Open Source

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Geometry Engine Open Source
Basic data

developer OSGeo
Current  version 3.8.0
(October 10, 2019)
operating system Windows , macOS , Linux , Unixoide systems
programming language C ++
category Geographic information system
License LGPL
German speaking No
GEOS homepage and project portal

The Geometry Engine Open Source ( GEOS ) is a free program library in C ++ for handling two- and 2.5-dimensional geometries and is a port of the JTS Topology Suite programmed in Java .

The library is used in PostGIS , in the Python programming package Shapely and in the Python Cartographic Library (PCL).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Changelog . In: OSGeo . Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Summary for Shapely. In: FreeGIS database. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Summary for Python Cartographic Library. In: FreeGIS database. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).