feat(analysis): Points Along Lines, points at a set distance along lines and rings by flight1973 · Pull Request #1099 · opengeos/RustGIS

flight1973 · 2026-10-28T17:07:24Z

Summary

Adds Points Along Lines (pointsAlongLines, Data Management › Features), a built-in tool that writes points at a set distance along each part of a line layer, or each ring of a polygon layer, as proposed in #1027 (roadmap: Solid ground › vector tools, (open)).

Parameters: input (a line or polygon layer), distance (default 1) and units (Kilometers, Meters, Miles, Feet, as Buffer), startOffset and endOffset, includeEnd ("Include End Point": a point where each part's points stop when the distance doesn't land there; the first is always at the start offset, it adds only the end; off by default), output.
On the ground: distances are measured on the WGS 84 ellipsoid with GeographicLib, as Calculate Geometry measures length, so the spacing is the same in any coordinate system. Two small helpers in rustgis-geom expose GeographicLib's inverse and direct problems with their azimuths (wgs84_inverse, wgs84_direct, which returns GeographicLib's longitude unrounded), and fold_lon folds a longitude into −180..180 by an exact remainder, as GeographicLib does, leaving one in range untouched.
Each part and ring is walked on its own from its first vertex, so the gap between two parts never counts. A line's parts that cross the antimeridian (one ending on it where the next begins, within a millimeter, the two on opposite sides of it by their nearest vertices off it, as RFC 7946 asks GeoJSON to split such a line; GDAL's splits, and ones written with both ends at −180°, are joined) are one line; parts that only touch it, or touch and turn back, stay apart. A ring ends where it starts, so a point there is made once, and a line that ends where it starts, within a millimeter (a contour), is walked as a ring too. A line that passes through one place twice (out and back, a lollipop's stick) gets a point there each time the distance lands on it.
Edges are the shortest geodesics between vertices, as Calculate Geometry measures them and the globe draws them. A flat map draws an edge straight in its own projection (in Web Mercator, along a constant bearing), so a point on a long edge sits off the drawn line: for an east–west edge 100 km long, about 200 m at 45° of latitude, 340 m at 60° and 1.1 km at 80° (a hundredth of that at 10 km; none on the equator or along a meridian). The docs say so and suggest adding vertices, and also cover edges spanning more than 180° of longitude (taken the short way) and polygons cut at the antimeridian (walked as stored, cut included). Between antipodes, which have no single shortest path, it takes GeographicLib's (over a pole for two points on the equator).
Fields: the feature's attributes, orig_fid (as Feature Vertices To Points, feat(analysis): Feature Vertices To Points, a point at each vertex #1003), and distance (along the part, in units, the start offset included; it starts again on each part) and angle (degrees clockwise from north; on a vertex, halfway between the segments either side). A name the input already has gets a suffix.
Uses the selection; the points keep the input's coordinate system, with longitudes in −180..180, and what the input lost on reading (crs_incomplete, zm_dropped; Feature Vertices To Points now keeps them too). A vertex less than a millimeter from the one before is passed over, so a near-duplicate doesn't turn a point's angle; one past a pole is taken as the pole; one with a coordinate missing or infinite is passed over, and the tool says how many in a message of its own.
Cancel and progress in the Tools pane, as main's long tools have them: progress counts features, and a cancel stops the walk within a point, a line's segments or a feature, and the exact recount too.
angle is the true azimuth (from true north), which near a pole turns quickly along even a straight line and at a pole follows GeographicLib's convention. Nothing uses it yet; when data-defined symbol rotation (roadmap) uses it, it will need to subtract the map projection's grid convergence, which is zero only in Web Mercator.
On-off parameters of built-in tools are checked in resolve_params, as choices are: true or false (text saying so counts; blank or null is the default), anything else an error rather than a guess ([Bug]: Buffer treats any unrecognised "units" value as kilometres, silently: "meter" gives a 500 km buffer #406). Merge (Add native Merge tool for vector layers #1076) has the other one: it already refused anything but a real boolean, and now also takes "true"/"false", and null as its default (on), as the model builder shows it.

Feature Vertices To Points (#1003) and the new tool now share their point-making helpers: a PointList both build into, size_output_points (counting fallibly), point_bytes, point_row, and a selected_features/selected_rows walk of the selection, which rows now shares; #1003's check_room takes the tool's name and advice so both can use it. Feature Vertices To Points' output and messages are unchanged (its output tests as they were; only its memory-sizing unit test moved to the shared helpers). The branch merges main three times (one conflict in tools.rs' imports; then the roadmap lines next to #1076's Merge; then the roadmap, the assistant's tool list, rustgis-geom's geodesic helpers and the guide's tool table, next to the new line tools and geodesic area). No other project's code was followed; the geodesic calculations use GeographicLib, already a dependency.

Memory and speed: what was weighed

Every segment is solved once and the point list is allocated once:

The count uses a bound, not the exact length. A path on the ellipsoid is at most 0.45 % longer than on the sphere (the largest radius of curvature, at the poles, against the sphere's), so the count sums haversine lengths stretched by 1.005: a few operations a segment rather than an iterative solution. The count (Spacing::most) never falls as the length grows and is never below what the walk (Spacing::places) makes, a ring's end merging into its start within a fixed tolerance for the count and the walk's own (never smaller) for the walk (a test sweeps 200,000 cases; a review's port fuzzed 800,000). If it ever fell short, the full list stops the tool with an error rather than leave points out. Rejected: solving each segment exactly for the count and again to place the points (twice the geodesic work), keeping every segment's solution between the two (memory for every segment of the input), and growing the list as points are made (each growth copies it). The bound overcounts by about 0.5 %, and up to a point or two a part: when over a sixteenth of the list is unused, the points move into one of their own size (if there's memory to), so the layer doesn't keep the room.
Each part's segments are solved once, into one list sized for the longest part and reused part by part, and the points are placed from it: one direct solution a point, none for a point on a vertex. The walk stops at a part's last point.
A memory budget of 4 GiB (about 20 million points with a few fields), estimated from the count, on every platform. The distance alone sets how many points there are, so one in the wrong units can ask for billions; a desktop that overcommits memory would close the app rather than refuse. A run the bound puts over the budget, or past what the browser can give, is counted exactly before it's refused, so the bound never refuses one that fits; the exact count stops as soon as it's over the budget too, so a hopeless run (a distance in the wrong units on a big layer) costs no more. In the web app, feat(analysis): Feature Vertices To Points, a point at each vertex #1003's check of what the browser can give also applies. Both refuse before anything is built.
Allocation is fallible throughout, and a failure stops the walk at once rather than placing points it can't keep.

Testing

At b8fb7174: cargo xtask ci (formatting, clippy with warnings denied, workspace tests and layering), cargo build --locked --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p rustgis-web, and pre-commit run --all-files all passed.
Targeted Points Along Lines tests passed. Regression coverage includes counted notices for missing geometry, point features, empty lines and polygons, and line features with no measurable segments; clean lines, usable multipart features, and offset-only empty results stay free of spurious loss notices. The past-pole notice also covers a vertex that produces no segment or output point.
New tests with expected values independent of the code: positions along the equator from its arc length (a meter is 1/6,378,137 of a radian), places and azimuths off the equator and GeographicLib's own values (Python geographiclib 2.1) for the geom helpers, the length bound against exact lengths on paths near a pole, over it, across the antimeridian and nearly to the antipode, and hand-derived spacing cases. They cover offsets, includeEnd (and its values, null and blank included), units, multipart lines, a line split at the antimeridian (east and west, written with both ends at −180° or one a rounding past 180°, and parts that only touch it, turn back, or end apart), polygon rings and an open hole, a closed line (to a millimeter) as a ring, the ring's first point made once, a ring offset by 5 mm walked once round, a parallel from −180° to 180° walked as a ring, a point each time a line passes a place, one point to a vertex, angles at vertices, at ring starts and on the antimeridian, near-duplicate vertices, steps under a millimeter, the selection, same-named fields, folding across the antimeridian, antipodes, a polar cap whose seam and pole edges have no length, bad parameters, the memory budget, the count never short of the walk (and a full point list refused), and coordinates past the poles and at the ends of f64, in a line and in a polygon's ring.
Precision at the hard places: the geom helpers agree with Python GeographicLib to a nanometer in length and 1e-12° (0.1 µm) in position a few centimeters across the antimeridian and across a pole, near and at both poles, and nearly at the antipode.
The existing hostile-parameter and no-file-output sweeps over every tool include it.
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UI evidence

A new tool in the Tools pane (Data Management › Features), using the existing tool form; no other UI changes. Points Along Lines run on the World Atlas sample's Rivers every 300 km with Include End Point (163 points), its form beside the map:

Points Along Lines run on the World Atlas sample's Rivers every 300 km: the new Rivers_PointsAlong layer on the map, the tool's form in the Tools pane

Related issue

Closes #1027.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added Points Along Lines, which places points at configurable ground-distance intervals along lines and polygon rings. Set units and offsets, optionally include endpoints, and retain source attributes alongside distance and bearing.
Bug Fixes
- Feature Vertices To Points now preserves additional input metadata and reports the number of points written.
- Improved built-in boolean parameter handling and feedback for invalid values.
- Improved memory estimates when splitting features.
Documentation
- Updated the user guide, roadmap, and built-in tools list to include Points Along Lines.

…nes and rings A built-in tool (pointsAlongLines, Data Management > Features) writing points at a set distance along each part of a line layer, or each ring of a polygon layer, measured on the WGS 84 ellipsoid with GeographicLib (opengeos#1027). - Parameters: input, distance and units (as Buffer), startOffset and endOffset (as QGIS's Points along geometry), includeEnd (as ArcGIS's Include End Points), output. - Each part and ring is walked on its own from its first vertex; line parts that meet on the antimeridian are one line, as RFC 7946 splits it. A ring's end point, which is its start, is made once. - Fields: orig_fid, distance (along the part, in the distance's units) and angle (the azimuth; at a vertex, halfway between the segments either side). - Each segment is solved once: the point list is sized from a spherical length bound (x1.005, never short of the ellipsoid) and allocated once, and each line's segments are solved into one reused list. The points' estimated memory is held to 4 GiB on every platform, and in the web app to what the browser can give; allocation is fallible throughout. - Longitudes are folded into -180..180 by an exact remainder (fold_lon); vertices under a millimeter apart are passed over. Also: wgs84_inverse, wgs84_direct and fold_lon in rustgis-geom; built-in tools' on-off parameters are checked as choices are (opengeos#406); Feature Vertices To Points shares the point list, counting and selection helpers. Closes opengeos#1027

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Walkthrough

The change adds pointsAlongLines, which places points at ground-distance intervals along line parts and polygon rings. It adds WGS 84 geodesic functions, shared point-allocation safeguards, parameter validation, tests, and updates to tool documentation and listings.

Changes: Points Along Lines

Layer / File(s)	Summary
WGS 84 geodesic APIs `crates/geom/src/lib.rs`	Adds longitude folding and WGS 84 inverse and direct geodesic functions, with tests for reference routes, antimeridian crossings, poles, and near-antipodal paths.
Shared point-output infrastructure `crates/analysis/src/tools.rs`, `crates/analysis/src/tools/geometry.rs`	Generalizes row selection, point counting, memory checks, and fallible point construction. Updates Feature Vertices To Points to use shared helpers and changes segment memory estimates to use `point_bytes`.
Points Along Lines tool and validation `crates/analysis/src/tools.rs`, `crates/analysis/src/lib.rs`	Registers `pointsAlongLines` and implements geodesic point placement, offsets, endpoint inclusion, output attributes, input checks, and memory handling. Adds tests for geometry, selection, spacing, cancellation, and memory limits. Boolean parameter handling normalizes accepted values and bounds invalid-value display.
Tool listings and documentation `crates/assistant/skills/geoprocessing/SKILL.md`, `docs/user-guide/analysis.md`, `GEOLIBRE_PARITY.md`, `ROADMAP.md`	Adds Points Along Lines to the skill and user guide, lists it as built in, and moves it to the Done analysis list.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant pointsAlongLines
  participant selected_features
  participant wgs84_direct
  participant PointList
  pointsAlongLines->>selected_features: Iterate selected input features
  pointsAlongLines->>wgs84_direct: Calculate interval point positions
  pointsAlongLines->>PointList: Append points and output attributes
  PointList-->>pointsAlongLines: Return completed output features

Possibly related issues

opengeos/RustGIS#1291 — Adds fallible output allocation, memory checks, and cancellation handling for Points Along Lines, which overlaps with the issue’s resource-handling objectives.

Suggested reviewers: giswqs

Merge Risk: Low · up to b8fb7

Cancellation can be delayed while Points Along Lines counts vertices in large inputs. The change is mergeable with this bounded responsiveness limitation acknowledged or addressed.

Pre-merge checks: 2 · 2 · 1

Failed checks: 2 warnings · 1 inconclusive

Check name	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	Active direct target: `#1027` only. Most requirements are met at `b8fb717`. The pointsAlongLines tool exists with input, distance, units, startOffset, endOffset, includeEnd, and output. Distances use WGS…	Remove the fixed 4 GiB refusal and its exact-count budget path in crates/analysis/src/tools.rs. Keep fallible allocation, which stops the tool with a message on failure. Keep the browser available-memory check from `#1003`. Refuse a run only …
Out of Scope Changes check	Changes outside `#1027`: 1. crates/analysis/src/lib.rs, resolve_params: for every built-in tool, a parameter of kind ParamKind::Bool now runs the new boolean() helper. This helper accepts "true" and "f…	Move the built-in on-off normalization in resolve_params (the boolean() path for all Bool parameters) and the Merge (`#1076`) change into a separate pull request scoped to `#406` or `#1076`. In this pull request, limit boolean parsing to includeE…
Docstring Coverage	Docstring coverage is 72.73% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 2 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "feat(analysis): Points Along Lines, points at a set distance along lines and rings" names the main change: a new built-in Points Along Lines tool that places points at a set distance along …
Description check		The description follows the template's main sections. Summary is complete: it states the new tool, its parameters, distance and geodesic handling, memory budget, and the shared helper refactor. Testin…

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The title "feat(analysis): Points Along Lines, points at a set distance along lines and rings" names the main change: a new built-in Points Along Lines tool that places points at a set distance along line parts and polygon rings. The changeset adds this tool in crates/analysis, with the matching geom helpers, docs, and assistant skill entries. The title is specific and follows a conventional-commit prefix. Its length (82 characters) is on the long side but still clear.

Full details: Description check

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The description follows the template's main sections. Summary is complete: it states the new tool, its parameters, distance and geodesic handling, memory budget, and the shared helper refactor. Testing is complete: it lists commands run at a specific commit, targeted tests, and the kinds of cases covered. UI evidence is provided: it includes a screenshot of the new tool form and layer, which fits the template's requirement for visible UI changes. Related issue is complete: it says 'Closes #1027.' The description is very long and dense, and some passages are hard to follow, but it contains the required information.

Full details: Linked Issues check

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Active direct target: #1027 only. Most requirements are met at b8fb717. The pointsAlongLines tool exists with input, distance, units, startOffset, endOffset, includeEnd, and output. Distances use WGS 84 through wgs84_inverse and wgs84_direct (GeographicLib). Parts and rings are walked independently. The tool writes orig_fid, distance, and angle, and it adds a suffix on name clashes. It honours the selection and keeps the input coordinate system. Allocation is fallible. The web app checks browser memory. Automated tests cover these behaviours.

Unmet requirement: #1027 states that there is no fixed limit on the number of points ("As with Feature Vertices To Points, there is no fixed limit on the number of points"). The PR description, the tools.rs summary, and the docs/user-guide/analysis.md summary state that the tool refuses any run whose estimated output exceeds a fixed 4 GiB budget on every platform. This refusal does not depend on an allocation failure or on browser memory. The file at head for crates/analysis/src/lib.rs was readable, but tools.rs was too large to read within limits. The 4 GiB refusal therefore rests on the PR description and the summary, which both state it for this head.

Note: #1027's test list names "the point limit". That wording conflicts with the no-fixed-limit requirement. This assessment follows the explicit memory requirement.

Resolution

Remove the fixed 4 GiB refusal and its exact-count budget path in crates/analysis/src/tools.rs. Keep fallible allocation, which stops the tool with a message on failure. Keep the browser available-memory check from #1003. Refuse a run only when allocation fails or the browser cannot supply the memory the output needs. Update the 4 GiB statements in docs/user-guide/analysis.md and in the PR description to match. Update the test that checks the memory budget.

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Explanation

Changes outside #1027:

crates/analysis/src/lib.rs, resolve_params: for every built-in tool, a parameter of kind ParamKind::Bool now runs the new boolean() helper. This helper accepts "true" and "false" text and maps blank or null to the default. The file at head confirms this change. The PR description ties it to #406 and to Merge (#1076). Points Along Lines needs only a boolean parse for includeEnd. It does not need a change to every built-in tool, and it does not need the Merge change.
Merge (#1076) now accepts "true", "false", and null as its default (on). This is a change to #1076, not to #1027.
Feature Vertices To Points (#1003): the PR description states that its output and messages are unchanged. It also states that the tool now keeps crs_incomplete and zm_dropped, and that it preserves additional input metadata. The metadata change is a behaviour change to #1003. #1027 does not require it. The shared point helpers (PointList, size_output_points, point_bytes, point_row, selected_features/selected_rows) and the check_room change are refactoring that #1027 supports (it reuses #1003's memory helpers), so they are not flagged here.

The roadmap, guide, assistant skill, geodesic helpers, and tool-table entries for the new tool connect to #1027 and are not flagged.

Resolution

Move the built-in on-off normalization in resolve_params (the boolean() path for all Bool parameters) and the Merge (#1076) change into a separate pull request scoped to #406 or #1076. In this pull request, limit boolean parsing to includeEnd for pointsAlongLines, and keep its tests. Remove the Feature Vertices To Points metadata change (crs_incomplete, zm_dropped, extra metadata) from this pull request, or move it to a pull request for #1003 and justify it there. Keep the shared helper refactor if it leaves #1003's output unchanged. Make the PR description match the code.

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Docstring coverage is 72.73% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 11 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 1 unsupported, 1 too large.)

Resolution

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github-actions · 2026-10-28T17:11:58Z

+
+/// How near the antimeridian a line's part is to end, and the next to begin, for the two to be one
+/// line split there: a hundred-millionth of a degree of longitude, about a millimeter.
+const SEAM: f64 = 1e-8;


Low: the seam tolerance and MIN_SEGMENT disagree. SEAM is 1e-8° of latitude, about 1.11 mm at the equator, but MIN_SEGMENT is 1 mm. A seam pair whose latitudes differ by between about 9e-9° and 1e-8° is joined into one line, yet its connecting segment is at least 1 mm, so segments() keeps it rather than passing it over as the doc on segments says. That segment points north or south, so a point landing on the join gets its angle averaged with that direction, up to 45° off. Real data usually splits at identical latitudes, so this is unlikely to show up, but a tolerance well under MIN_SEGMENT makes the doc true.

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const SEAM: f64 = 1e-8;

/// How near the antimeridian a line's part is to end, and the next to begin, for the two to be one

/// line split there: a billionth of a degree, about a tenth of a millimeter, under MIN_SEGMENT.

const SEAM: f64 = 1e-9;

Confidence: high on the arithmetic, low on practical impact. The existing seam tests use exact ±180 and a 0.001° gap, so they are unaffected.

Fixed in 6a38e1e. SEAM is now 1e-9° (about 0.1 mm), and meet_at_seam also requires the two ends to be under MIN_SEGMENT apart on the ground, so segments() always passes over the join and it never turns a point's angle. Test: points_along_lines_joins_parts_only_where_they_cross_the_antimeridian.

github-actions · 2026-10-28T17:12:00Z

+/// a few fields). The distance alone sets how many there are, so one in the wrong units can ask for
+/// billions, and a desktop system that hands out more memory than it has would close the app when
+/// it ran out rather than refuse.
+const ALONG_BUDGET: u64 = 4 << 30;


Low (judgment call): a fixed 4 GiB budget on desktops. The check holds on every platform, so a run that passes it can still fill up to 4 GiB. On a laptop with 8 GB of RAM that can mean heavy swapping or an OOM kill, which the comment on PointList already concedes for overcommitting systems. Consider a smaller fixed cap (1 GiB is about 5 million points with a few fields), or one based on the machine's available memory. I'm not certain this matters enough to change; the trade-off is yours to weigh.

Kept on purpose. The budget used to be the browser's limit only; it became 4 GiB on every platform after two earlier reviews pointed out that a desktop system that overcommits memory would otherwise close the app instead of refusing. 4 GiB is about 20 million points with a few fields, and the tool says how to make fewer when it refuses. A cap based on the machine's free memory would make a model's results depend on the machine it runs on, so I'd rather keep one fixed number. If you'd prefer a lower one, it's the single constant ALONG_BUDGET.

github-actions · 2026-10-28T17:12:08Z

Code review

I read the full diff against the base-branch AGENTS.md and checked the helpers it calls and the existing tools it could affect. The core geodesic walk (count bound, per-segment solve, vertex angle averaging, ring closure) holds up on reading. I did not compile or run the tests: this review had no build or run access.

Bugs

Seam tolerance is larger than MIN_SEGMENT (low, high confidence on the arithmetic, low on impact). SEAM is 1e-8° of latitude, about 1.11 mm at the equator, but MIN_SEGMENT is 1 mm. A seam pair with latitudes 9e-9° to 1e-8° apart is joined, but its connecting segment is kept rather than passed over, so a point on the join can get an angle averaged with a north/south direction, up to 45° off. Inline suggestion posted on SEAM.

Security

Nothing found. Parameters and feature data are handled with get/try_reserve, and the new code adds no unchecked indexing or unwraps in non-test code.

Performance

4 GiB fixed budget on desktops (low, judgment call). A run that passes the check can fill 4 GiB, which on an 8 GB machine could mean swapping or an OOM kill. Inline comment posted on ALONG_BUDGET.

Quality

Nothing blocking. The boolean check in resolve_params only affects includeEnd, the sole K::Bool parameter in the analysis crate, so existing tools are unchanged. The check_room message for Feature Vertices To Points is byte-identical to before.

AGENTS.md

Checked: no unwrap/expect/panic/unsafe in non-test code; get() used over indexing; the geom additions use the existing WGS84 solver; the new tool is a CommandSpec-style entry with no dialogs; no new dependency; no assets added. The hostile-parameter sweep iterates over the tool list, so the new tool is covered automatically. The PR fits CONTRIBUTING's "pick freely" path (roadmap item marked open, with [Feature]: Points Along Lines: points at a set spacing along lines and polygon boundaries #1027 as the proposal).

Change size

Compared with main (merge base aea3ddc to PR head b39d374).

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crates/analysis/src/tools.rs	268.5 KB	310.9 KB	+42.4 KB
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docs/user-guide/analysis.md	59.0 KB	62.0 KB	+3.0 KB
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Review comments at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:
- Line 1706: Update the ring count in the `spacing.count(length_bound(line,
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suppression, so the bound-based capacity is at least the exact count and
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crates/analysis/src/lib.rs
crates/analysis/src/tools.rs
crates/assistant/skills/geoprocessing/SKILL.md
crates/geom/src/lib.rs
docs/user-guide/analysis.md

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Resolves the one conflict: tools.rs's std imports (main's HashMap and HashSet beside this branch's ControlFlow). cargo xtask ci (2,798 tests) and the wasm build pass on the result.

github-actions · 2026-10-28T18:34:19Z

+    /// Adds a point at `c` with its feature's `own` attributes (padded to `kept`), then `extra`,
+    /// numbered from 1. Breaks once the memory has run out, or the `n` points are there.
+    fn push<const N: usize>(&mut self, c: Coord, own: &[Value], kept: usize, extra: [Value; N]) -> ControlFlow<()> {
+        if self.stopped() || self.points.len() == self.n {


Low confidence (silent truncation path). If the count n ever comes out smaller than what the walk emits, push breaks at the cap with no flag, and the tool returns a layer that is quietly missing points. On reading, the bound looks like an upper bound: count is monotone in length, and length_bound is at least the exact segment sum, so this probably can't happen. Still, a failure here would be silent. Consider recording a full flag in PointList when a point is refused for lack of room, and having finish return an error for it. Don't use a panic here, since AGENTS.md forbids them.

Fixed in 6a38e1e. A point past the count stops the list with Stopped::Uncounted, and the tool returns an error naming the count ("made more than the N points it counted, so stopped rather than leave some out"), never a layer with points missing.

github-actions · 2026-10-28T18:34:21Z

+        // A step far too small saturates the count rather than wrapping it.
+        let tiny = Spacing { step: 1e-300, start: 0.0, end: 0.0, with_end: true };
+        assert_eq!(tiny.count(1e10, false).0, usize::MAX);
+        assert_eq!((mean_azimuth(170.0, -170.0), bearing(-1e-17), bearing(-90.0)), (180.0, 0.0, 270.0));


Nit: the mean_azimuth and bearing assertions don't test point counts, so they don't belong in spacing_counts_each_point_once. Give them their own test (for example angle_helpers_wrap_and_average), so a failure names the right thing.

Left for the release quality pass.

github-actions · 2026-10-28T18:34:28Z

Code review

I read the full diff (7 files), the base-branch AGENTS.md, and the surrounding code for resolve_params, check_room, web_has_room, haversine_m, and the rustfmt config. I found no confirmed bugs. The geodesic walk, the tolerance handling, the ring and antimeridian logic, and the count bound all hold up on reading. I did not compile or run the tests here.

Bugs

None confirmed.
Low confidence: PointList::push stops silently at the counted cap, so an undercount would drop points without an error. The count looks like a true upper bound, so this is probably unreachable. (Inline comment on tools.rs:1442.)

Security

None found. Input is validated (boolean, offset, distance, budget check) before any allocation, and the 4 GiB budget refuses hostile sizes before anything is built.

Performance

None significant. The count pass and the solve pass each walk the geometry once, and each segment is solved once. The bound-then-allocate approach avoids regrowing the point list.

Quality

Nit: the mean_azimuth and bearing assertions sit in spacing_counts_each_point_once, which is about counts. (Inline comment on tools.rs:4222.)
Nit: the ELLIPSOID_STRETCH doc comment has a comma splice ("…solution for the exact length, it sizes…").

AGENTS.md

No violations found. There are no unwrap, expect, panic, or unsafe in non-test code. The new boolean() check applies only to built-in tools, and includeEnd is the only built-in Bool, so no existing tool changes behaviour. Layering is intact, and the new tool uses the same untranslated label style as its neighbours.

Confidence: high that there are no confirmed defects. The two inline comments are nits and a low-confidence robustness concern.

Change size

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Resolves ROADMAP.md and GEOLIBRE_PARITY.md: main's Merge tool (opengeos#1076) and Points Along Lines are both built in now. Merge's attributes flag is the second built-in on-off parameter; resolve_params' check keeps refusing what Merge refused and also takes the text true or false.

github-actions · 2026-10-28T18:52:17Z

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…an counted, seams, rings From the review bots on opengeos#1099, /code-review and four review lenses. - The count never falls short of the walk. A ring's end merging into its start was decided against a tolerance that grows with the length, which the count takes from a bound 0.5 % longer: an offset between the two tolerances counted up to two points fewer than the walk made, and the point list, full, dropped the rest without a word. The offsets are now measured against MIN_SEGMENT, so a longer length never counts fewer (swept over 200,000 cases), and a list that fills up is an error, never a quiet stop. - Spacing::places returns a part's count, end point, last place and tolerance together, which the count and the walk both use, rather than each working them out. - The tolerance is under a quarter of a step, so a step under a millimeter no longer piles points onto a vertex. - Line parts are joined at the antimeridian only where they cross it: ends on opposite sides, each part on its own end's side, within MIN_SEGMENT on the ground (SEAM is 1e-9 degrees). A part that touches it and turns back, or two that only meet there, are walked apart. - A line that ends where it starts (a contour) is walked as a ring, as its polygon would be. - A point on a vertex past a pole is written at the pole, where the walk measured it. - Before refusing a run the bound puts over the 4 GiB budget, the points are counted exactly, so the bound's 0.5 % can't refuse a run that fits. The refusal names more points than it can count, and says to simplify lines with very many vertices when one is what doesn't fit. - resolve_params: an explicit null on-off parameter is its default, as blank text is (Merge's attributes: null now runs, as the model builder shows it); a refused value is echoed to 80 chars. - The on-off parameter is "Include End Point": the start always has a point, unlike ArcGIS's Include End Points. Distance and offset errors name the tool and say "not too large" (1e308 miles). - Small: selected is selected_features (a local in Vector To PMTiles shadowed it), PointList.n is cap, point_row adds saturating, fold_lon's doc says how its NaN differs from wrap_lon's. - Docs: a flat map draws an edge straight in its projection (a constant bearing in Web Mercator), and how far a point on a long edge sits off it by latitude (200 m at 45 degrees to 1.1 km at 80 for 100 km east-west); edges over 180 degrees of longitude, polygons cut at the antimeridian and polar caps; distance restarting on each part, unlike QGIS; the angle against a long drawn edge. Tests (fail before this change): a count never below the walk, a full point list refused, no points piled on a vertex, joining only real crossings, a closed line as a ring, latitudes clamped. Also: points off the equator against GeographicLib's own values, null defaults (Merge's too), a long refused value quoted in part.

…e point a place From a second /code-review and the four lenses on 6a38e1e. - The list is sized by Spacing::most and the walk places by Spacing::places: a ring's end merges into its start within a fixed tolerance for the count (a millimeter, or a quarter of a step under 4 mm) and within the walk's own (never smaller), so the walk never makes more than the count, and a ring with a 5 mm start offset on 10,000 km no longer gets two points on its first vertex, nor one with a step of 2 mm loses its last. - Two points that would both take one vertex (one just before it, one just after) are one. - A line is closed when its ends are within MIN_SEGMENT on the ground, not only when they're equal (a contour after a round trip through text, or a parallel from -180 to 180 degrees). - Antimeridian joins take each part's side from its nearest vertex off the antimeridian, not its end's sign, which splitters write either way (both ends at -180, or one a rounding past 180): those splits are joined again, and parts that touch and turn back still aren't. - The exact recount before refusing stops as soon as it's over the budget (size_output_points takes a limit), so a hopeless run costs no more than before; it also runs when the browser can't give what the bound counts. A refusal from the bound says "up to", and a memory figure too large to count says so. - The point list moves into one of its own size when over a sixteenth of it is unused (a count from a bound can overshoot by a point or two a part), when there's memory to; the layer doesn't keep the room. - resolve_params: refused values, in choices too, are written out only to 80 characters, through a writer that stops serde_json there. The not-enough-memory messages come from Stopped::message. - Docs: QGIS's tool measures along the whole feature, leaves out the end offset on polygons and walks a closed line open; the angle against a drawn Web Mercator edge (0.45 degrees at 45 to 2.5 at 80 for 100 km); a -180 to 180 edge has no length at one latitude; "the first is always at the start offset". Tests (fail before this change): splits written with same-signed ends joined, with a point on the antimeridian itself; one point on a vertex; a 2 mm step's ring keeping its last point; a line closed to 1e-12 degrees; the list trimmed. Also: the count's limit, and the refusal "up to".

…ime a line passes a place From a third /code-review and the lenses on the second round. - Two points on one vertex were told apart by the vertex's place, so a line passing through a place twice (out and back, a lollipop's stick) lost the point the distance put there the second time, or its end where it ends on its start. They're now told apart by the vertex of the walk (its segment), and only a ring's end is its start. - The browser's room is asked for once, and again only when an exact count replaced the bound's. - A refusal is always for the bound's count ("up to"): an exact count that fits is never refused, so the flag telling the two apart is gone. - The segment list is freed before the points move into a list of their own size. - A line whose ends are equal is closed without solving the geodesic between them. - A choice parameter is matched without copying the text given. - Docs: QGIS's closed line gets an end point only when the distance lands there; a line through a place twice gets a point there each time; Web Mercator isn't conformal on the ellipsoid, so a diagonal edge is drawn up to about 0.19 degrees off its bearing, on the equator too; reflowed. Tests (the first fails before this change): a point each time a line passes a place; a parallel from -180 to 180 degrees walked as a ring; a ring 5 mm offset walked once round, within the count; hostile coordinates in a polygon's ring.

Conflicts in ROADMAP.md (points along lines moves from the open vector tools to the analysis list), the geoprocessing skill's tool list, rustgis-geom (the geodesic helpers beside main's WGS 84 length and ring area) and the guide's tool table (beside the new line tools). Main's Split Line At Vertices sizes its output with point_bytes, as this branch names the shared estimate.

…asses over From the final /code-review and lenses on the third round and main's merge. - Cancel and progress, which main added to the Tools pane: the walk counts features done and stops at the next point, line or feature once canceled; an exact recount stops too. A canceled run returns no layer. - A vertex with a coordinate missing or infinite was passed over without a word, the line joined across it. The tool now says how many it passed over, in a message of its own. - The points keep what the input lost on reading (crs_incomplete, zm_dropped), as main's geometry tools' outputs do; Feature Vertices To Points' too. - wgs84_inverse and wgs84_direct give NaN for a coordinate, azimuth or distance that isn't finite, as wgs84_distance_m does, rather than clamping an infinite latitude to a pole. - A due-north angle is 0, never -0 (written "-0"). - Docs: the vertex passed over and the layer's notes; Web Mercator's 0.19 degrees is at the equator, 0.1 at 45, less toward the poles; a line along a parallel is walked along its edges' geodesics. Tests (each fails before this change): a run canceled before it starts and once it has walked some lines; the input's flags on both point tools, lost or not; the count of vertices passed over, and none said for a line with none; a wild closed line; -0 north; the geodesic helpers' NaN for what isn't finite.

From the review of the fourth round. - A cancel stops the segments' solving within a line too, in the walk and in the exact recount: one line can have millions of vertices. - The cancel test records how far the walk had come when it was canceled and checks it stopped within a line of that, so a run that only checked once it was done would fail. - The message about vertices passed over no longer says the line was joined across them: one at a line's end trims it instead, and one can leave a line too short to walk. A line layer is tested too, with both.

github-actions · 2026-11-03T01:56:04Z

+        if points.capacity() - points.len() > points.len() / 16 {
+            let mut fitted = Vec::new();


Performance (medium-low confidence): the trim briefly holds two lists. fitted is reserved while points still holds its full cap, and append copies every point before points is dropped on return. So the peak during finish is about cap + len points, and that copy is not in the ALONG_BUDGET estimate. Where the bound overcounts by more than a sixteenth (many short parts, for example), a run near the 4 GiB budget can reach about twice that on a desktop, which is the memory pressure the budget is meant to avoid.

Options: count the copy in the budget, or trim in place with shrink_to_fit(). That often avoids a copy, but it can abort on allocation failure, which conflicts with the fallible allocation this file keeps, so I did not offer it as a committable suggestion. Your call.

Kept on purpose. shrink_to_fit would avoid holding both lists, but it reallocates in place and aborts the process if that allocation fails, which AGENTS.md rules out. The copy is fallible instead: fitted is reserved with try_reserve_exact, and when that fails the points simply stay in their larger list, so the trim can never be what runs out of memory. It only happens when over a sixteenth of the list is unused (a count from the bound overshoots by about 0.5 % and a point or two a part), and the segment list is freed just before it (drop(segs)), so the brief peak is the points twice at most, never the segments too.

github-actions · 2026-11-03T01:56:11Z

Code review

Bugs

None confirmed. I traced the point-count bound against the walk (Spacing::most vs Spacing::places, and the on_vertex dedupe in walk_line), the antimeridian joining (meet_at_seam, including the reversal case from an earlier thread), and the budget path (exact recount before refusing). The count stays at or above what the walk emits, and a short count now stops with a loud error instead of truncating. Confidence: medium, since I did not run the tests.

Security

None found. Hostile numeric input is bounded: saturating casts, budget refusal before allocation, and get()-style indexing in the new non-test code.

Performance

PointList::finish copies into a fitted list while the full list is still alive, so the transient peak is about cap + len points, outside the 4 GiB estimate. Posted inline on crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2360. Confidence: medium-low.

Quality

Features with no geometry (tools.rs:2815) and vertices under 1 mm are passed over without a notice. AGENTS.md's "Never silent" rule lists skipped features. Both are arguably not data loss, since they yield no points, so I'm not calling this a violation. Confidence: low.

AGENTS.md

The PR body still contains the placeholder  and no image. This is a new visible tool, so the screenshot requirement applies. I could not see whether images were attached elsewhere. Confidence: medium-high.
Non-test code in the diff has no unwrap, expect, panic, or unsafe. The new geodesic helpers stay in rustgis-geom, the time-independent code uses no std::time, and the layering is unchanged.

Prior reviews

I left 2 concerns alone because they are still open and unanswered: the fixed 4 GiB budget on desktops, and the mean_azimuth/bearing assertions sitting in spacing_counts_each_point_once.
I did not re-raise 4 threads that the current code addresses: the seam tolerance, the reversal case, the endOffset/bound count, the exact recount, and the silent-truncation path.

Change size

Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 53e06c6 to PR head 70d02a5).

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docs/user-guide/analysis.md	89.76 KB	94.57 KB	+4.81 KB
crates/analysis/src/lib.rs	17.39 KB	19.12 KB	+1.73 KB
crates/assistant/skills/geoprocessing/SKILL.md	3.90 KB	4.00 KB	+98 B
GEOLIBRE_PARITY.md	24.73 KB	24.77 KB	+42 B
crates/analysis/src/tools/geometry.rs	14.73 KB	14.70 KB	-35 B
ROADMAP.md	17.35 KB	17.35 KB	+2 B

github-actions · 2026-11-03T02:12:55Z

+                }
+                // Folded into −180..180: a point past the antimeridian is on the far side of the map.
+                // A vertex's latitude past a pole (bad data) is the pole, where the walk measured it.
+                let c = Coord::new(rustgis_geom::fold_lon(c.x), c.y.clamp(-90.0, 90.0));


AGENTS.md, never silent (medium-high confidence): a latitude past a pole is clamped to the pole without any notice.

This line clamps c.y into ±90 for every output point, and the walk's wgs84_inverse/wgs84_direct clamp the same way. The docs say so, but AGENTS.md asks that a tool which approximates data says what, how much and where. The test points_along_lines_survives_hostile_coordinates (around line 6303) even asserts the opposite: its vertices at latitude 1e300 and −95° come out at ±90, and it checks r.messages.len() == 1, so the only message is the result line.

Suggested direction: count the vertices whose latitude is outside −90..90 in the same pass as missing, and push a message such as Points Along Lines: N vertex(es) with a latitude past a pole put at the pole. The test would then assert that message for the hostile ring, and a clean line would still give none.

Not a committable suggestion because it touches the counting pass as well as this closure.

Fixed in ef88452. The tool now counts the vertices whose latitude is past a pole and says how many it took as the pole, in a message of its own ("Points Along Lines: N vertex(es) with a latitude past a pole taken as that pole"), beside the one for vertices passed over for a coordinate missing or infinite. points_along_lines_survives_hostile_coordinates checks both messages, each once, for a line and a polygon's ring, and a clean line still gets only its count of points.

github-actions · 2026-11-03T02:13:02Z

Code review

Bugs

No new bugs found. I traced the seam join, the ring and end-point logic, the count-versus-walk invariant, and the memory budget paths, and found no panic or count mismatch. I did not compile or run the tests (no toolchain run here), so these are read-based findings.

Security

None found. The tool does no file I/O, its inputs are bounded by the budget, and parameter values are refused rather than guessed.

Performance

The earlier peak-memory concern about finish still stands in the code (fitted is reserved while points is still full). Already raised, see below.

Quality

The count closure in points_along_lines takes exact: bool, limit, and an out-parameter longest, and size_output_points takes six parameters. These are readability points for the release quality pass.

AGENTS.md

Never silent (medium-high): latitudes past a pole are clamped to ±90 for every output point with no notice. points_along_lines_survives_hostile_coordinates asserts that only the result message appears. Posted inline at crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2835.

Earlier concerns

I left 7 earlier threads alone, none re-raised. Four were fixed or outdated (seam tolerance, turn-back joins, count invariant, silent truncation). Three remain open and unchanged: the 4 GiB budget (answered by the author), the test-organisation nit (answered as left for the quality pass), and the finish peak-memory point (unanswered, code unchanged).

Change size

Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 53e06c6 to PR head 70d02a5).

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Follow-up Comments

Check cancellation during the bound count.

2766-2766: Minor · Performance & Scalability · Low value

Check cancellation during the bound count.

The bound count runs length_bound over every selected line without a cancel check. Cancel latency therefore equals one full pass over the selected vertices. Add the same cancel check that the exact recount uses to the count closure.
Suggested fix
-            if exact && crate::control::cancelled() {
+            if crate::control::cancelled() {
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs at line 2766:
Update the count closure used by the bound and exact recounts so its
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…it took as the pole A vertex whose latitude is past a pole (bad data) is taken as that pole, as the docs said, but the tool didn't say so. It now counts them and says how many, in a message of its own beside the one for vertices passed over. The test checks both messages, each once, for a line and a polygon's ring; a clean line still gets only its count of points.

github-actions · 2026-11-03T03:13:37Z

+            }
+        }
+        Geometry::Polygon(polys) => polys.iter().flatten().for_each(|r| f(std::slice::from_ref(r), true)),
+        Geometry::Point(_) | Geometry::MultiPoint(_) => {}


AGENTS.md, never silent (medium confidence): features skipped without a notice. for_each_line drops a Point/MultiPoint geometry in a line or polygon layer (a mixed layer, such as GeoJSON can hold), and the main loop at ~2817 continues on a feature with no geometry. Neither produces points or a message, so the feature's attributes are missing from the output with nothing said. AGENTS.md asks that skipped features be reported, one notice per kind with a count, the way the missing/infinite and past-pole vertices already are. Suggested direction: count the point-geometry features and the geometry-less features in the main loop, and push one message each when the count is nonzero. A clean line layer would still give no message. Not a committable suggestion because it touches the counting and the message code.

Fixed in f0acd17. Points Along Lines now reports separate counted notices for missing geometry and Point/MultiPoint features skipped in mixed input. The regression checks both losses and confirms clean line input produces neither notice. Full cargo xtask ci, the locked wasm build, and all pre-commit hooks passed.

Handled by @Mavrick-F in f0acd17: features without geometry and point features are each counted in a message of their own ("N feature(s) without geometry skipped", "N point feature(s) skipped; only lines and polygon rings produce points"). points_along_lines_reports_skipped_features checks both, and that a clean line gives only its count of points.

github-actions · 2026-11-03T03:13:45Z

Code review

I read the full diff, the prior review threads and the surrounding code (control.rs, web_has_room, geom's haversine radius). I could not run the tests or clippy, since this session has no shell. Everything below is from reading.

Bugs

No new correctness bugs found. I checked the walk (walk_line) for point placement, the ring-end merge, the vertex dedupe and the direction at vertices. I also checked the length bound against the ellipsoid (the 1.005 stretch holds, since the max radius of curvature is about 0.45 % over the sphere), the count-never-below-walk invariant, the seam join and the PointList fallible allocation. Checked and sound.
The earlier bug threads (seam reversal, count short of the walk, silent pole clamp, seam tolerance) are fixed at this head.

Security

No findings. Hostile input is bounded: the 4 GiB budget is checked before any allocation, shown() caps echoed values at 80 characters, coordinates are folded and clamped, and allocation is fallible. No file or network I/O is added.

Performance

Low confidence: when the bound overshoots the budget, the exact recount solves every segment of a feature before the need > limit check runs (that check is between features, at ~2216). A single huge feature therefore costs a full solve. The PR text says a hopeless run "costs no more", which overstates this. Worth a comment fix, not a code change.

Quality

Low: the user guide says a vertex "less than a millimeter from the one before is passed over". The code compares to the last vertex kept (segments(), ~2599). The two differ for a chain of sub-millimeter steps. The effect is negligible, but the docs should match the code.
Nit: the u closure in points_along_lines repeats the one in point_bytes.

AGENTS.md

Medium confidence: features are skipped without a notice. Point geometries in a line or polygon layer are dropped in for_each_line (inline comment posted at crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2567), and geometry-less features are continued in the main loop. AGENTS.md requires skipped features to be reported with a count.

Earlier concerns left alone

Five earlier threads were already addressed at this head. Three open ones were left alone: the 4 GiB fixed budget (answered by the author), the trim copy's peak memory (answered by the author), and the mean_azimuth test placement (left for the quality pass). I did not re-post any of them.

Change size

Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 53e06c6 to PR head ef88452).

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Follow-up Comments

Assert the ring's output in the hostile-coordinate test.

6324-6328: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Assert the ring's output in the hostile-coordinate test.

The polys ring check asserts only that every point lies on Earth and that the first point's latitude is 90. A walk that emits one point for the ring would pass. Add an assertion that the ring yields more than one point, or its expected count, so the test detects dropped segments.

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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs around lines 6324 - 6328:
Strengthen the hostile-coordinate test’s `polys` ring check to verify it emits
more than one point or the expected point count, in addition to the existing
Earth-validity and first-latitude assertions. Keep the check focused on
detecting dropped ring segments.

Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR

Mavrick-F · 2026-11-03T05:54:47Z

Following up for landing, at ef884521. @flight1973, CI is green, but two notice issues remain before merge. The main output loop still silently skips geometry-less features, and for_each_line ignores point geometries in mixed input; these need counted skipped-feature messages under Never silent. The current CodeRabbit thread also notes that the past-pole count includes vertices from parts that produce no segment, while the notice says those vertices were used as poles. Please reconcile that count and wording with the actual processing. Your fixed-budget rationale and existing test-organization deferral do not need another round of refactoring. After the substantive findings are handled, validate one final batch and obtain CodeRabbit approval on that head.

Mavrick-F · 2026-11-03T13:45:32Z

I’m taking over the remaining notice fixes and validation on this branch as maintainer follow-up. I’ll preserve the existing commits and handle the skipped-feature reporting and past-pole notice together before pushing a validated batch.

github-actions · 2026-11-03T16:36:39Z

+/// starts, within [`MIN_SEGMENT`] (a closed line, such as a contour, or one written along a parallel
+/// from −180° to 180°, walked along its edges' geodesics). A point has none.
+fn for_each_line(g: &Geometry, mut f: impl FnMut(&[Vec<Coord>], bool)) {
+    let closed = |run: &[Vec<Coord>]| {


Bug, medium-low confidence: an out-and-back line loses its end point. closed only compares a run's first and last vertices, so [A, B, A] is walked as a ring. The ring rule merges the end into the start, so with distance one leg the output is A and B, and the point where the distance lands on A at 2 legs is dropped. The docs say "a line that passes through one place twice gets a point there each time the distance lands on it", which this contradicts. None of the tests cover a closed line with two distinct vertices, since the lollipop test isn't closed.

Options: require at least three distinct vertices for a line to count as closed, or document the exception in docs/user-guide/analysis.md. Confidence in the behavior is high; whether it is a bug or a documented choice is a judgment call.

Keeping the current behavior: the guide explicitly says that a line ending where it starts is walked as a ring, and separately contrasts that with an open-line endpoint policy. points_along_lines_walks_a_closed_line_as_a_ring verifies the contract against polygon-ring output. [A, B, A] therefore emits the closing A once, just like other closed lines; the repeat-visit rule applies before that closing duplicate. Requiring three distinct vertices would change that documented policy. Clarifying the repeat-visit sentence's closed-line exception is left for the release quality pass.

github-actions · 2026-11-03T16:36:41Z

+            "{TOOL}: {past_pole} vertex(es) with a latitude past a pole found (latitudes limited to the poles when measuring segments)"
+        ));
+    }
+    if without_geometry > 0 {


AGENTS.md, never silent (medium confidence): line features with no usable length are skipped without a notice. A line feature whose parts are a single vertex, a repeated vertex, or two vertices under a millimeter apart (or that is closed within a millimeter and so has no segment) produces no points, and nothing is reported. The test points_along_lines_walks_each_part_on_its_own builds such parts but doesn't assert on messages, so it passes silently.

Suggested direction: count features that yield no segments in the main loop and add one message with the count, next to the existing "without geometry skipped" one. A clean line layer would still give no message. I didn't write a committable suggestion because it touches the counting pass.

Fixed in b8fb717. The walk counts line/polygon features that supply no measurable segment, including singletons, repeated or sub-millimeter vertices, empty lines, and empty polygons. A multipart feature with a usable part is kept, and valid features excluded only by offsets do not receive this notice. The regression checks these cases and clean output. Targeted Points Along Lines tests, full cargo xtask ci, locked wasm build, and all pre-commit hooks passed.

github-actions · 2026-11-03T16:36:49Z

Code review

Bugs

Out-and-back or closed two-vertex lines ([A, B, A]) are walked as rings, so the point where the distance lands on the start at the end is dropped. This contradicts the docs' "a point each time the distance lands on it". Medium-low confidence; it may be a documented choice rather than a bug. Inline comment posted at crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2545.

Security

Nothing found. The tool reads only layer data and parameters, with no file or network I/O.

Performance

Nothing new. The count pass plus the walk does about two geodesic passes, and the exact recount runs only when the bound doesn't fit. Both are documented and bounded by the budget.

Quality

Nit: the docs say "a vertex less than a millimeter from the one before is passed over", but the code compares against the last kept vertex. Low confidence, cosmetic.
Nit: the past-pole notice counts vertices in parts that place no points (e.g. a lone 95° vertex), and the test pins that. Left alone; see the prior threads below.

AGENTS.md

Never silent (medium confidence): line features with no usable length (a single vertex, repeated vertices, or two vertices under a millimeter) produce no points and no notice. points_along_lines_walks_each_part_on_its_own builds such parts without asserting on messages. Inline comment posted at crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2867.
I checked the other AGENTS rules and found no violations: no unwrap/expect/panic in non-test code, no unsafe, tl! isn't needed in the analysis crate, and CRS is handled because datasets are stored as lon/lat.

Prior threads

I left 10 earlier threads alone. Five are answered or resolved and hold up in the code: the 4 GiB budget, the two-list trim, the seam tolerance, the antimeridian reversal, and the uncounted-point error. The features-skipped notice now exists in the code (lines 2867–2868). The quality nit is deferred to the release pass.
I did not re-raise the past-pole placement concern, because the test asserts the current behavior on purpose.

Verification limits

I read the diff and the surrounding source only. I did not build, run the tests, or run clippy. The findings are from reading the code.

Change size

Compared with main (merge base 53e06c6 to PR head f0acd17). Whole-PR totals.

Measure	Value
Files changed	8 (0 added, 8 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
Size before	749 KB
Size after	837 KB
Total size change	+87.0 KB

Path	Before	After	Change
`crates/analysis/src/tools.rs`	539 KB	613 KB	+74.0 KB
`crates/geom/src/lib.rs`	42.5 KB	48.7 KB	+6.2 KB
`docs/user-guide/analysis.md`	89.7 KB	94.6 KB	+4.8 KB
`crates/analysis/src/lib.rs`	17.4 KB	19.1 KB	+1.7 KB
`crates/assistant/skills/geoprocessing/SKILL.md`	3.9 KB	4.0 KB	+96 B
`GEOLIBRE_PARITY.md`	24.7 KB	24.8 KB	+41 B
`crates/analysis/src/tools/geometry.rs`	14.7 KB	14.7 KB	−34 B
`ROADMAP.md`	17.3 KB	17.3 KB	+2 B

Mavrick-F · 2026-11-03T16:39:49Z

The no-measurable-segments notice is a valid never-silent finding; a fix and regression are prepared for validation. It counts features with no usable segments, without treating offset-only empty output or a multipart feature with a usable part as malformed. The closed-line endpoint behavior is intentional, as explained inline. The low-confidence wording nit about the last kept vertex is left for the release quality pass; the past-pole notice accurately reports encountered vertices and needs no further change.

flight1973 · 2026-11-03T17:04:37Z

Thanks for picking this up. One gap I see in f0acd17: a feature whose geometry is present but empty, such as Line(vec![]) or Polygon(vec![]), is neither None nor a point, and for_each_line never calls back for it, so it's skipped without a message. A walked flag set at the top of the for_each_line callback, before the cancel check, with no_line += usize::from(!walked) after the call, counts every feature the walk never visits, points and empty geometries alike, e.g. "N feature(s) with no line or ring to walk (only points, or empty) skipped". For a test: add Geometry::Line(vec![]) beside the point and multipoint in points_along_lines_reports_skipped_features and update its expected messages. Optionally, a sentence in the Points Along Lines section of the user guide saying which features are skipped and that the tool counts them.

Mavrick-F · 2026-11-03T17:06:01Z

The staged no-measurable-segments fix also covers this: its per-feature flag starts false and only becomes true when a part supplies a usable segment, so an empty line or polygon is counted even when for_each_line never calls back. I added both Line(vec![]) and Polygon(vec![]) to the regression and a guide sentence explaining the counted notices. Point features retain their separate notice, while valid features excluded only by offsets stay quiet. This is included in the queued validation batch; I’ll link the commit once validation and publication succeed.

flight1973 · 2026-11-03T17:13:22Z

Thanks @Mavrick-F. I see f0acd17 covers all three points (the two skipped-feature notices and the past-pole wording), so I've dropped the batch I had for the same points. Nothing more from me on these unless you'd like changes.

Mavrick-F · 2026-11-03T17:14:16Z

I checked both updates. The PR and flight1973/RustGIS:feat/points-along-lines still point to f0acd17f, and GitHub cannot find 06546076 in either repository, so I cannot inspect that implementation yet. The queued maintainer batch already reports empty lines/polygons and features without measurable segments, with regressions. The current past-pole notice was accepted by CodeRabbit and reports encountered vertices without claiming placement. I’ll reconcile any published author advance before landing; the guarded publisher refuses to push if the contributor branch changes.

Mavrick-F · 2026-11-03T18:07:21Z

@coderabbitai resume

The additional never-silent fix is published as b8fb717: features with no measurable segments are counted, including the author's empty Line and Polygon cases. The regression also keeps valid multipart features and offset-only empty results free of this loss notice. The guide documents the skipped-feature categories. Targeted Points Along Lines tests, full cargo xtask ci, locked wasm build, and all pre-commit hooks passed. Please review this final batch; the earlier past-pole notice remains unchanged.

coderabbitai · 2026-11-03T18:08:40Z

@Mavrick-F I’ll resume automatic reviews and request a review of the final batch at b8fb7174c45cc24265135db624ec9a5e3f66de7a.

The review will focus on counted skipped-feature notices, empty Line and Polygon cases, and regressions that keep valid multipart features and offset-only empty results free of loss notices. The earlier accepted past-pole wording does not need another wording-only pass.

Thanks for publishing the fix and reporting the validation results.

Learnings used

Learnt from: CR
Repo: opengeos/RustGIS PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-03T15:05:42.977Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# RustGIS — instructions for agents

## Never silent

- A reader, writer, tool or command that drops, truncates or approximates data says what, how
  much and where: Z values dropped, field names cut, a CRS assumed, features skipped.
- Report through `Session::notify` (app, CLI, Python `take_notices`) or `ToolResult::messages`,
  one notice per kind with a count; `eprintln!` alone doesn't count. Unusable results are errors.

Learnt from: deniial00
Repo: opengeos/RustGIS PR: 1215
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-01T17:51:35.449Z
Learning: Within repository "opengeos/RustGIS": When reviewing pull requests in opengeos/RustGIS, treat automated review findings as advisory rather than mandatory merge requirements. Prioritize real bugs. If a contributor gives a reasoned explanation for declining a minor or low-value suggestion, acknowledge that decision without insisting on the change. Leave merge requirements to the maintainers.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: opengeos/RustGIS PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-03T15:05:42.977Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# RustGIS — instructions for agents

## Never silent

- Test both ways: lossy input gives the notice, clean input none. Existing silent losses are bugs.

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github-actions · 2026-11-03T18:09:49Z

+/// distance along the part (in the distance's units) and the line's direction there.
+fn points_along_lines(inp: &dyn Inputs, p: &Json) -> Result<ToolResult, String> {
+    const TOOL: &str = "Points Along Lines";
+    let ds = input(inp, p, "input")?;


Bug / AGENTS.md "never silent" (high confidence on the behavior, medium-high on impact): a projected layer's coordinates are read as degrees.

Nothing here checks ds.crs, and the tool never reprojects. It measures every input as WGS 84 longitude/latitude, so on a UTM, State Plane or Web Mercator layer x is folded mod 360 and y is clamped to the poles. The output is wrong, and the only notice is "latitude past a pole", which doesn't say the layer is in the wrong system. AGENTS.md lists "a CRS assumed" as something a tool must report. The docs line "the spacing is ... in any coordinate system" (docs/user-guide/analysis.md, around line 334) is therefore not true as written.

KDE already refuses geographic input on the same basis (tools.rs ~3426). This tool needs the converse check. Crs is Copy and is_geographic takes self, so the guard compiles as written. Reprojecting to EPSG:4326 would also work, but refusing is the smaller change and matches KDE. Calculate Geometry has the same gap today; this is not raised against it here.

Suggested change

let ds = input(inp, p, "input")?;

let ds = input(inp, p, "input")?;

if ds.crs.is_some_and(|c| !c.is_geographic()) {

return Err(format!("{TOOL}: the layer is in a projected coordinate system; reproject it to longitude/latitude (EPSG:4326) first"));

}

A regression test would cover a projected layer (e.g. Crs::Epsg(32633) with metre coordinates) returning this error, and a clean lon/lat layer passing.

This guard would reject valid inputs. Dataset explicitly guarantees WGS 84 longitude/latitude geometry, including datasets from tools/plugins; projected source coordinates must be normalized before insertion. Its crs field records the source/export coordinate system, not the units of the stored vertices: Dataset contract.

KDE follows the same contract: after choosing a projected working CRS it calls transformer.from_lonlat(*c) on each stored point (tools.rs, around 3474), rather than interpreting stored coordinates as projected metres. Points Along Lines correctly consumes the normalized lon/lat geometry and preserves source CRS metadata for export. A manually constructed dataset containing metre coordinates violates that established input contract. No CRS refusal or extra reprojection is warranted here.

github-actions · 2026-11-03T18:10:03Z

Code review

Bugs

Projected layers are read as lon/lat, with no CRS check (AGENTS.md: "a CRS assumed"). points_along_lines never checks ds.crs, so a UTM, State Plane or Web Mercator layer is measured as degrees: x is folded mod 360 and y is clamped to the poles. The only notice is "latitude past a pole", and the docs' "in any coordinate system" claim is wrong. KDE already refuses geographic input on the same basis, so the converse check belongs here too. Inline comment posted at crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2702 with a suggested guard. Confidence: high on the behavior, medium-high on impact.

Security

No new findings. The new code does no file or network I/O and no unchecked indexing in non-test code.

Performance

No new findings. I checked the length bound (the 1.005 stretch is a valid upper bound), the exact recount, and the segment and point allocation paths. The memory-budget and double-list concerns are already in the threads below.

Quality (grouped nits, not posted inline)

docs/user-guide/analysis.md (around line 340, the vertex paragraph): "the tool says how many it took so" is a dangling "so", and several lines run past 100 characters with uneven wrapping.
shown() in crates/analysis/src/lib.rs appends "…" to a value that is exactly 80 characters long, though nothing was cut.
tools.rs grew by about 1,450 lines. The geodesic walk (Spacing, Places, segments, walk_line, meet_at_seam) would fit a module of its own, as geodesic.rs and tissot.rs do. This can wait for the release quality pass.

AGENTS.md

Apart from the CRS finding above, the changes follow the rules I checked. No unwrap, expect, panic! or unsafe in non-test code. Each new notice is one per kind with a count. Interface text is not in scope for the analysis crate. No dependencies were added. GeographicLib is already a dependency.

Already raised (left alone): 12 prior threads cover the 4 GiB budget, the finish-time copy, the past-pole and mixed-input notices, the out-and-back closed line, the seam tolerance, the point-count bound, the ring count, the antimeridian turn-back, and the mean-azimuth test nit. Several are fixed or answered. I did not re-raise any of them. I did not run the test suite; this is a read-only review of the diff and surrounding source.

Change size

Compared with main (merge base 53e06c6 to PR head b8fb717), the whole PR.

Measure	Value
Files changed	8 (0 added, 8 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
Size before	749.4 KB
Size after	838.4 KB
Total size change	+89.0 KB

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`crates/analysis/src/tools.rs`	539.1 KB	615.0 KB	+75.8 KB
`crates/geom/src/lib.rs`	42.5 KB	48.7 KB	+6.2 KB
`docs/user-guide/analysis.md`	89.8 KB	94.9 KB	+5.1 KB
`crates/analysis/src/lib.rs`	17.4 KB	19.1 KB	+1.7 KB
`crates/assistant/skills/geoprocessing/SKILL.md`	3.9 KB	4.0 KB	+98 B
`GEOLIBRE_PARITY.md`	24.7 KB	24.8 KB	+42 B
`crates/analysis/src/tools/geometry.rs`	14.7 KB	14.7 KB	−35 B
`ROADMAP.md`	17.3 KB	17.3 KB	+2 B

Mavrick-F · 2026-11-03T18:11:47Z

The projected-CRS finding is answered inline with the Dataset coordinate contract and KDE's from_lonlat conversion: stored geometry is normalized WGS 84, while ds.crs retains source/export metadata. The proposed guard would reject valid layers. The wording/wrapping, exact-80-character ellipsis, and module-extraction suggestions are left for the release quality pass. No source change is needed for these review items.

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Merge main into feat/points-along-lines

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Resolves the one conflict: tools.rs's std imports (main's HashMap and HashSet beside this branch's ControlFlow). cargo xtask ci (2,798 tests) and the wasm build pass on the result.

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