Improve behaviour of GeometryFixer for holes outside shell #772
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A fairly common class of geometry validation error is to have polygons mis-classified as holes. This can occur in formats where there is no explicit distinction between shells and holes, only that of ring orientation and geometric location (e.g. the shapefile format).
This
GeometryFixer
improvement handles this situation by detecting holes lying wholly outside shells and converting them intoPolygon
s.