[LUCENE-6544] Geo3d cleanup: Regularize path and polygon construction, plus consider adding ellipsoid surface distance method

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.3
• Component/s: modules/spatial
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: Karl Wright
• Created: 10/Jun/15 10:34
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:34
• Resolved: 18/Jun/15 17:49

Description

Geo3d's way of constructing polygons and paths differs in that in one case you construct points and the other you feed lat/lon values directly to the builder. Probably both should be supported for both kinds of entity.

Also it may be useful to have an accurate point-point ellipsoidal distance function. This is expensive and would be an addition to the arc distance we currently compute. It would probably be called "surface distance".