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brew install geos v3.14.1 LGPL-2.1-or-later

C++ library for computational geometry operations, used by spatial databases and GIS tools.

Why you might care

GEOS implements the OGC Simple Features specification and is the standard geometry engine for PostGIS, QGIS, and other geospatial software. If you're building spatial applications or need robust polygon/point/line operations, this is the de facto dependency. It's mature, widely vetted, and handles edge cases that naive implementations miss.

Categories

library geospatial

Alternatives

CGAL Shapely JTS
3.6k
30-day installs · #739
10.5k
90-day · #790
51.0k
365-day · #676

Build dependencies

cmake

Links

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