1 [/============================================================================
2 Boost.Geometry (aka GGL, Generic Geometry Library)
4 Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Barend Gehrels, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
5 Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Mateusz Loskot, London, UK.
6 Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Bruno Lalande, Paris, France.
8 This file was modified by Oracle on 2014.
9 Modifications copyright (c) 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
11 Contributed and/or modified by Menelaos Karavelas, on behalf of Oracle
13 Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License,
14 Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
15 http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
16 =============================================================================/]
18 [def __this_function__ union]
20 [heading_conformance_ogc __this_function__..Union]
21 [note __boost_geometry__ adds an underscore to avoid using the `union` keyword]
26 [[[qbk_out __point__]][Calculates union linestrings of input (multi)points]]
27 [[[qbk_out __linestring__]][Calculates union linestrings of input (multi)linestrings]]
28 [[[qbk_out __polygon__]][Calculates union polygons of input (multi)polygons and/or boxes]]
31 [include reference/algorithms/geometry_rules.qbk]
38 * [link geometry.reference.algorithms.intersection intersection]
39 * [link geometry.reference.algorithms.difference difference]
40 * [link geometry.reference.algorithms.sym_difference sym_difference (symmetric difference)]