Descrizione

Compares two geometry objects and returns true if their intersection "spatially crosses"; that is, the geometries have some, but not all interior points in common. The intersection of the interiors of the geometries must be non-empty and must have dimension less than the maximum dimension of the two input geometries, and the intersection of the two geometries must not equal either geometry. Otherwise, it returns false. The crosses relation is symmetric and irreflexive.

In mathematical terms: ST_Crosses(A, B) ⇔ (dim( Int(A) ⋂ Int(B) ) < max( dim( Int(A) ), dim( Int(B) ) )) ∧ (A ⋂ B ≠ A) ∧ (A ⋂ B ≠ B)

Geometries cross if their DE-9IM Intersection Matrix matches:

	The OpenGIS Simple Features Specification defines this predicate only for Point/Line, Point/Area, Line/Line, and Line/Area situations. JTS / GEOS extends the definition to apply to Line/Point, Area/Point and Area/Line situations as well. This makes the relation symmetric.

	Questa funzione incorpora l'uso di una comparazione tra i bounding box in modo da usare qualunque indice spaziale disponibile sulle geometrie.

	Enhanced: 3.0.0 enabled support for GEOMETRYCOLLECTION

Questo metodo implementa le OGC Simple Features Implementation Specification for SQL 1.1. s2.1.13.3

Questo metodo implementa la specifica SQL/MM. SQL-MM 3: 5.1.29

Esempi

The following situations all return true.

MULTIPOINT / LINESTRING	MULTIPOINT / POLYGON
LINESTRING / POLYGON	LINESTRING / LINESTRING

Consider a situation where a user has two tables: a table of roads and a table of highways.

CREATE TABLE roads (
  id serial NOT NULL,
  geom geometry,
  CONSTRAINT roads_pkey PRIMARY KEY (road_id)
);

CREATE TABLE highways (
  id serial NOT NULL,
  the_gem geometry,
  CONSTRAINT roads_pkey PRIMARY KEY (road_id)
);

To determine a list of roads that cross a highway, use a query similar to:

SELECT roads.id
FROM roads, highways
WHERE ST_Crosses(roads.geom, highways.geom);

Si veda anche

ST_Contains, ST_Overlaps