pygeos/pygeos: Version 0.8

Highlights of this release

• Handle multi geometries in boundary (#188)
• Handle empty points in to_wkb by conversion to POINT (nan, nan) (#179)
• Prevent segfault in to_wkt (and repr) with empty points in multipoints (#171)
• Fixed bug in multilinestrings(), it now accepts linearrings again (#168)
• Release the GIL to allow for multithreading in functions that do not create geometries (#144) and in the STRtree query_bulk() method (#174)
• Addition of a frechet_distance() function for GEOS >= 3.7 (#144)
• Addition of coverage_union() and coverage_union_all() functions for GEOS >= 3.8 (#142)
• Fixed segfaults when adding empty geometries to the STRtree (#147)
• Addition of include_z=True keyword in the get_coordinates() function to get 3D coordinates (#178)
• Addition of a build_area() function for GEOS >= 3.8 (#141)
• Addition of a normalize() function (#136)
• Addition of a make_valid() function for GEOS >= 3.8 (#107)
• Addition of a get_z() function for GEOS >= 3.7 (#175)
• Addition of a relate() function (#186)
• The get_coordinate_dimensions() function was renamed to get_coordinate_dimension() for consistency with GEOS (#176)
• Addition of covers, covered_by, contains_properly predicates to STRtree query and query_bulk (#157)

Acknowledgments

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

• Brendan Ward
• Casper van der Wel
• Joris Van den Bossche
• Krishna Chaitanya +
• Martin Fleischmann +
• Tom Clancy +