turf-point-on-surface

turf point-on-surface module

turf.pointOnSurface(input)

Finds a Point guaranteed to be on the surface of GeoJSON object.

• Given a Polygon, the point will be in the area of the polygon
• Given a LineString, the point will be along the string
• Given a Point, the point will the same as the input

Parameters

Example

// create a random polygon
var polygon = turf.random('polygon');

// place a point on it
var pointOnPolygon = turf.pointOnSurface(polygon);

// show both of them
var fc = turf.featurecollection([polygon, pointOnPolygon]);
//=fc

Returns Feature, a point on the surface

Installation

Requires nodejs.

$ npm install turf-point-on-surface

Tests

$ npm test