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Version: 6.5.0

booleanPointInPolygon

Description

Takes a Point and a Polygon or MultiPolygon and determines if the point resides inside the polygon. The polygon can be convex or concave. The function accounts for holes.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
pointCoordinput point
polygonFeature<Polygon | MultiPolygon>input polygon or multipolygon
options?ObjectOptional parameters (default {})
options.ignoreBoundary?booleanTrue if polygon boundary should be ignored when determining if the point is inside the polygon otherwise false. (default false)

Returns

    boolean true if the Point is inside the Polygon; false if the Point is not inside the Polygon

Examples

var pt = turf.point([-77, 44]);
var poly = turf.polygon([
[
[-81, 41],
[-81, 47],
[-72, 47],
[-72, 41],
[-81, 41],
],
]);

turf.booleanPointInPolygon(pt, poly);
//= true

Installation

$ npm install @turf/boolean-point-in-polygon

import { booleanPointInPolygon } from "@turf/boolean-point-in-polygon";
const result = booleanPointInPolygon(...);
$ npm install @turf/turf

import * as turf from "@turf/turf";
const result = turf.booleanPointInPolygon(...);