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Pole of Inaccessibility

Get the pole of inaccessibility of an object

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Written by Holly Conrad Smith
Updated over 2 weeks ago

The pole of inaccessibility is the point inside a shape that is farthest from any of its edges — essentially the most "interior" point possible. Unlike the centroid, which is just the average center of a shape's area and can actually fall outside the boundary in concave or irregular shapes (like an L or a crescent), the pole of inaccessibility is always guaranteed to be inside the shape.

Inputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Feature

F

Cartesian

Item

The geometry

Outputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Vector

V

Vector

Item

The pole of inaccessibility

  1. Get a geometry

    You can use read feature or any output of another geometric operation

    If working with Lists, use map to get the centroid of each list item

  2. Add the POI node

    The output is the POI of the input geometry

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