CentroidWithin Operator

CentroidWithin is a spatial operator that evaluates whether an object is entirely within another geometry. CentroidWithin is the inverse operator to ContainsCentroid.

Example 1:

SELECT city FROM table WHERE obj CentroidWithin <geometry>

If the data source provider supports CentroidWithin: the entire query is delegated to the data provider.

If the data source provider does not support CentroidWithin, the query is converted to an EnvelopesIntersect and delegated as follows:

SELECT city, obj FROM table WHERE obj EnvelopesIntersects <geometry>

Spectrum Spatial evaluates CentroidWithin using the results from the data source provider:

SELECT city FROM <results from the delegation> WHERE obj CentroidWithin <geometry>

Example 2:

SELECT city FROM table WHERE <geometry> CentroidWithin obj

This example is the opposite of Example 1. It is also equivalent to the ContainsCentroid operator when the operands are reversed.

As written, this query does not meet Rule 2 for the WHERE clause, where boolean operators must be in the form WHERE <column> operator <geometry>. The query is rephrased as a ContainsCentroid operation and delegated to the data source provider.

SELECT city FROM table WHERE obj ContainsCentroid <geometry>