SAP HANA Spatial Predicates and Geometry Methods
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Tutorials that teach this
- Tutorial Use a Cost Function to Calculate Shortest Path
- Tutorial Transformation methods
- Tutorial Analyze Graph Workspace in SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Database
- Tutorial Connect Nodes, Centroids and Voronoi Cells to POI
- Tutorial Identify Relevant Networks in Spatial Data
- Tutorial Understand Spatial Columns in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Computation methods
- Tutorial Understand Polygons in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Understand Strings in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Add Advanced Geospatial Processing with Hibernate
Prerequisites
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Reference Systems (SRS) The concept name is missing or undefined, so a specific definition cannot be written. Please provide a valid SAP developer concept to define.
- Concept SAP HANA Cloud Spatial Engine The concept name was not provided (marked as "undefined"), and the available source snippets do not contain enough extractable detail — most are bare tutorial titles without body text — to construct a fully grounded 2–4 sentence prose definition. Please supply the concept name and richer source excerpts so an accurate definition can be written.
- Concept Well-Known Text (WKT) and ST_GeomFromText in SAP HANA A definition cannot be written because no concept was provided and the supplied sources do not identify a specific SAP developer concept to define. Please provide a valid concept name so that a grounded definition can be produced.
- Concept SAP HANA Voronoi Cells (ST_VoronoiCell) A **Voronoi Cell** is a spatial region associated with a point of interest (POI) that partitions a plane based on proximity to a centroid node. Developers use it in SAP spatial scenarios to connect nodes, centroids, and POIs, as well as to render geographic boundaries visually using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Column Types (ST_GEOMETRY, ST_POINT) The concept name is missing or undefined, so a precise definition cannot be written. Please provide the specific SAP developer concept you would like defined so it can be accurately described based on the available sources.
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Polygon Types and Operations A **polygon** in SAP HANA Spatial is a geometric shape used to represent a closed, two-dimensional area defined by a boundary of connected line segments. Developers use polygons to model real-world regions — such as land parcels, zones, or territories — and apply spatial computation methods to them, such as calculating area, checking containment, or determining intersections with other geometries.
Concepts that build on this
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Aggregation Methods (ST_UnionAggr, ST_EnvelopeAggr, ST_ConvexHullAggr)
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Transformation Methods (ST_Boundary, ST_Envelope, ST_ConvexHull, ST_Buffer)
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial LineString and CircularString Types
- Concept Querying Points of Interest with SAP HANA Spatial
- Concept Hibernate Spatial Integration with SAP HANA
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Distance Calculation
- Concept SAP HANA Graph Algorithms (Neighbors, Shortest Path)
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Hexagonal Clustering
- Concept Geospatial Data Processing in Java