com.vividsolutions.jcs.conflate.polygonmatch
Interface FeatureMatcher

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChainMatcher, IndependentCandidateMatcher, ScoreStretcher, ThresholdFilter, TopScoreFilter, WeightedMatcher, WindowFilter

public interface FeatureMatcher

An algorithm for finding potential matches for a feature from a collection of candidate features. To facilitate specification using an XML file in the future:

• there should be a constructor that takes no parameters
• when the 0-parameter constructor is used, initialization should be done using setter methods
• composite FeatureMatchers should have an #add(FeatureMatcher) method

Method Summary

Matches

match(com.vividsolutions.jump.feature.Feature target, com.vividsolutions.jump.feature.FeatureCollection candidates) Searches a collection of candidate features for those that match the given target feature.

Method Detail

match

public Matches match(com.vividsolutions.jump.feature.Feature target,
                     com.vividsolutions.jump.feature.FeatureCollection candidates)

Searches a collection of candidate features for those that match the given target feature.

Parameters:

target - the feature to match

candidates - the features to search for matches

Returns:

the matching features, and a score for each. (Implementors should document how they do their scoring).