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11.13.5.3. Functions That Create New Geometries from Existing Ones

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11.13.5.3.1. Geometry Functions That Produce New Geometries
11.13.5.3.2. Spatial Operators

The following sections describe functions that take geometry values as arguments and return new geometry values.

11.13.5.3.1. Geometry Functions That Produce New Geometries

Section 11.13.5.2, “Geometry Functions”, discusses several functions that construct new geometries from existing ones. See that section for descriptions of these functions:

11.13.5.3.2. Spatial Operators

OpenGIS proposes a number of other functions that can produce geometries. They are designed to implement spatial operators.

These functions are not implemented in MySQL.

  • Buffer(g,d)

    Returns a geometry that represents all points whose distance from the geometry value g is less than or equal to a distance of d.

  • ConvexHull(g)

    Returns a geometry that represents the convex hull of the geometry value g.

  • Difference(g1,g2)

    Returns a geometry that represents the point set difference of the geometry value g1 with g2.

  • Intersection(g1,g2)

    Returns a geometry that represents the point set intersection of the geometry values g1 with g2.

  • SymDifference(g1,g2)

    Returns a geometry that represents the point set symmetric difference of the geometry value g1 with g2.

  • Union(g1,g2)

    Returns a geometry that represents the point set union of the geometry values g1 and g2.