Point-based building (Water Overlay)

Point based buildings are constructions for which their geometry is interpreted as a single point.

Examples of point based buildings are the following hydraulic structures:

Icon	Name	Name
	Inlet	Conditional flow from external area to inlet location.
	Sewer overflow	Conditional flow from sewer to waterway, based on sewer overflow height.

Center point

A method to obtain a point from a geometry is to calculate the geometric center point of a geometry. The method used by Tygron Platform is similar to [1]. See the following examples:

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  Simple square polygon.
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  Simple circular polygon.
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  Road polygon.

The method above is simple, but not robust in all cases. See the following two cases:

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  Case one: Buffered multi-line polygon.
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  Case two: Multi polygon.

In case one, the building's geometry is a complex polygon. Its centroid lies outside its geometry.
In case two, the building's geometry is a multi-polygon. Its centroid is in between the two rectangle polygons.
Generally, these kind of polygons are undesirable for a point-based building.

General advice

• The point-based buildings should be supplied as simple rectangle or circular polygons.
• The geometry should consist of only one polygon. In the case of buildings, use only one section.

See also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroid%7CCentroid

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