Geometry Boost List: [ggl] 'area' and 'within' implementations for spherical earth?

Subject: [ggl] 'area' and 'within' implementations for spherical earth?
From: Thomas Rowe (thomas_rowe)
Date: 2011-07-13 10:39:24

> If you call bg::correct(boxRegion), it should be OK.

Yes, confirmed everything works fine if you call 'correct' on the larger
region, so I'm set. Correcting the inner region or shifting point order
to counter-clockwise does not suffice, however.

> the original file should NOT have compiled... But it did, in MSVC, in
> GCC and in clang. This is a mystery to me. I scanned for using and

That *is* weird. assign_points is definitely securely namespaced.