I'm using SQL Server 2012, geography.STContains
(documentation) and I don't get why the code below fails.
If I switch to geometry
it works.
Can someone explain?
//Daniel
declare @geo geography
set @geo = geography::STPolyFromText('POLYGON ((17.519133203852 59.8297423369731, 17.5190071588812 59.8296936773323, 17.5189979955459 59.8298203729009, 17.5191345140461 59.8298223425544, 17.519133203852 59.8297423369731))', 4326)
-- Is not within
declare @p1 geography
set @p1 = geography::STPointFromText('POINT(17.5184709839477 59.829925754067)', 4326)
-- Is within
declare @p2 geography
set @p2 = geography::STPointFromText('POINT(17.519060 59.829774)', 4326)
select
@geo.STContains(@p1), -- should be 0 is 1
@geo.STContains(@p2) -- should be 1 is 0
UPDATED: If I invert them it works just fine, but then I don't get this:
declare @geo geography
set @geo = geography::STPolyFromText('POLYGON ((17.519133203852 59.8297423369731, 17.5190071588812 59.8296936773323, 17.5189979955459 59.8298203729009, 17.5191345140461 59.8298223425544, 17.519133203852 59.8297423369731))', 4326)
select
@geo.STAsText() Polygon,
@geo.STPointN(1).STAsText() Point1,
@geo.STPointN(1).Lat Point1Latitud,
@geo.STPointN(1).Long Point1Longitude
Which results in this:
Polygon
POLYGON ((17.519133203852 59.8297423369731, 17.5190071588812 59.8296936773323, 17.5189979955459 59.8298203729009, 17.5191345140461 59.8298223425544, 17.519133203852 59.8297423369731))
Point1
POINT (17.519133203852 59.8297423369731)
Point1Latitud
59,8297423369731
Point1Longitude
17,519133203852
Now I found the issue. The user drew the polygon starting lower-right and went clockwise. If I reorder the points from biggest latitude and then go counterwise by sorting on long, lat it works. Found a helper for it, but that only works if you "know it's wrong":
Just put together a small solution that will fix my values: https://github.com/danielwertheim/GeographyFactory
and a blogpost about it: http://danielwertheim.se/sqlgeography-in-sql-server-2012-polygon-must-start-on-correct-position/
and a follow up about the real "issue", the left-hand rule:
http://danielwertheim.se/sqlgeography-in-sql-server-2012-polygon-must-start-on-correct-position-no/