Difference in polygon's between SIA2 and ADQL

Walter Landry wlandry at caltech.edu
Wed Feb 10 09:01:12 CET 2016


Hello Everyone,

Reading the description of polygons in ADQL, it links to the description in STC.

  http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/cover/STC-20071030.html

That defines a polygon as the points to the left of the edges.  In
contrast, in SIA2, a polygon is defined as the region with smaller
area.  Was that inconsistency intentional?  It complicates our
implementation.

Thanks,
Walter Landry


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