id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
10983,box-box distance doesn't seem to work with spherical coordinate systems,mdrinto@…,mkaravel,"The ""geometry distance matrix"" indicates that all geometry-to-geometry distances have been implemented in 1.57.  But the box-to-box distance doesn't seem to work with spherical geometries, at least with gcc 4.4.7.

One of the errors seems to be a ""not yet implemented"" error, so perhaps it hasn't been done yet.  It does have some tricky business that a cartesian box wouldn't have, but it's a straightforward exercise in trying different cases.

I'm certainly delighted with boost::geometry's functionality as is, but it would be great if this worked.  And many apologies if the mistake is mine.

See example below for problem.


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{{{
#include <boost/geometry/geometry.hpp>

typedef boost::geometry::model::point<double,2,boost::geometry::cs::cartesian> cartesian_point;
typedef boost::geometry::model::point<double,2,boost::geometry::cs::spherical_equatorial<boost::geometry::degree> > spherical_point;

int main()
{

  // Works...
  boost::geometry::model::box<cartesian_point> c_box1, c_box2;
  boost::geometry::distance(c_box1,c_box2);

  // Doesn't work!
  boost::geometry::model::box<spherical_point> s_box1, s_box2;
  boost::geometry::distance(s_box1,s_box2);

  return 0;
}
}}}
",Bugs,assigned,Boost 1.59.0,geometry,Boost 1.57.0,Problem,,distance box spherical,mkaravel