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Summary

Summarize Within (countPoints) tested every point against every polygon, so its cost grew with polygons × points. On the issue's data (4,562 block groups, about 1.8 million building points) it was still running after 28 minutes.

The tool now indexes the polygons' extents with the ExtentIndex that the overlay tools, Near and Spatial Join already use. Each point is tested only against the polygons whose extents hold it.

  • The extents are in Web Mercator, the space the point-in-polygon test already ran in. A point beyond the map's latitude limit therefore still meets a polygon that reaches the limit, as it did before.
  • A new merc_extent helper builds the extents with Extent::expand, which skips non-finite coordinates. A single NaN in a feature doesn't hide the rest of it, so a multipoint [NaN, inside] is still counted.
  • For valid geometry the counts are unchanged: the edge counts, a feature of several points counts once in each polygon it meets, and the points layer's selection is honoured. A polygon with a NaN or infinite vertex is now tested only against points inside the extent of its finite vertices; before, every point was tested against the broken ring, with no defined answer.

selectByLocation has the same shape (each feature tested against every selecting feature). I haven't measured it, so it is left for a separate change.

Testing

  • New test count_points_matches_testing_every_point_against_every_polygon compares the tool with every point tested against every polygon. Its data:
    • 300 random triangles and squares with holes, overlapping and of very different sizes, plus one polygon covering them all and a feature without geometry;
    • random points, points on polygon vertices, several-point features, a point beyond the latitude limit, features with NaN and infinite coordinates, and a selection on the points.
    • It asserts that the index builds its grid. With the index set to drop one candidate per point, the test fails.
  • Issue data, release rustgis-cli, the issue's commands: load, count and export took 10.1 s wall clock (peak RSS 300 MB), down from over 28 minutes (stopped). Every polygon's point_count equals QGIS's Count points in polygon output on the same files: 4,562 polygons, 1,777,965 points.
  • cargo xtask ci, cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p rustgis-web and pre-commit run --all-files pass.

Related issue

Closes #1105.

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  • Performance
    • Point counting across polygons now checks fewer irrelevant polygon areas, improving efficiency while preserving the existing per-polygon counts.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage comparing point counts across varied geometries, including boundary points and coordinates outside typical map limits.

Summarize Within tested every point against every polygon. It now looks
each point up in an ExtentIndex of the polygons' Web Mercator extents and
tests only the candidates, with the same counts. The extents skip
non-finite coordinates, so one NaN doesn't hide the rest of a feature.

On 4,562 block groups and 1.78 million points the run takes 10 s instead
of more than 28 minutes, with the same per-polygon counts as QGIS.

Closes opengeos#1105

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The count_points implementation now uses polygon extent indexing in Web Mercator to reduce intersection checks. It retains per-polygon point-feature counts and adds a regression test that compares indexed results with a brute-force scan across varied geometries and coordinate cases.

Changes: Point counting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Indexing and validating point counts
crates/analysis/src/tools.rs
count_points uses polygon extent candidates for intersection checks. The regression test compares indexed counts with brute-force results across selections, varied geometries, and coordinate cases.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant count_points
  participant ExtentIndex
  participant polygon_geometries
  count_points->>ExtentIndex: Build index from polygon extents in Web Mercator
  loop Selected point features
    count_points->>ExtentIndex: Query candidate polygons
    ExtentIndex-->>count_points: Return candidates
    count_points->>polygon_geometries: Test candidate intersections
  end
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Possibly related issues

  • Summarize Within point-versus-polygon performance tracking: this change adds the extent indexing planned for count_points.

Possibly related PRs

  • opengeos/RustGIS#916: Adds a countPoints reference case; this change updates the same tool and checks indexed results against brute-force results.
  • opengeos/RustGIS#1001: Changes Web Mercator longitude and extent handling used by this change’s polygon extent indexing.

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The indexed implementation has no established blocking defect. Merge with awareness that the new test verifies counts but would not catch a return to the slower full scan.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: indexing polygons in countPoints for improved performance.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1105 requires an extent index for polygon candidates in countPoints and a brute-force comparison test. count_points now builds Web Mercator extents with merc_extent, queries `ExtentIndex:…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The diff is limited to crates/analysis/src/tools.rs. It adds the extent helper, changes count_points to use the index, and adds focused regression coverage. These changes directly implement issue …
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Issue #1105 requires an extent index for polygon candidates in countPoints and a brute-force comparison test. count_points now builds Web Mercator extents with merc_extent, queries ExtentIndex::candidates, and retains mp.intersects(&amp;pg) for candidate polygons. The added count_points_matches_testing_every_point_against_every_polygon test compares indexed counts with every-point/every-polygon counts and covers selections, edges, multipoints, missing geometry, latitude-limit coordinates, and non-finite coordinates. The implementation preserves one count per point feature per polygon.

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The diff is limited to crates/analysis/src/tools.rs. It adds the extent helper, changes count_points to use the index, and adds focused regression coverage. These changes directly implement issue #1105. selectByLocation is not changed, consistent with the issue and the current PR scope.

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/// The extent of a geometry in Web Mercator, as [`to_geo`] gives it, leaving out non-finite
/// coordinates as [`Extent::expand`] does: one NaN doesn't hide the rest.
fn merc_extent(g: &impl geo::CoordsIter<Scalar = f64>) -> Extent {
g.coords_iter().fold(Extent::EMPTY, |mut e, c| {

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Low confidence (~30%): the "counts are unchanged in every case" claim doesn't hold for polygons with non-finite vertices.

merc_extent skips non-finite vertices, so a polygon's extent comes only from its finite vertices. The prefilter at z_ext.intersects(&ext) can then prune a polygon that mp.intersects(&pg) would have matched with its NaN or infinite vertices in play. Before this change, every polygon was tested with mp.intersects, so those results could differ. The new test only puts non-finite coordinates on the points side.

For valid geometry this can't happen. For malformed polygons, the old answer was undefined anyway, and the new one (bbox-based) is arguably more sensible. Either way the PR description should narrow the claim, or the test should add a polygon with a NaN vertex to pin the intended behaviour.

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Agreed, the claim was too broad. Making it true would take a test pinning a NaN-vertex polygon, and the old answer there was undefined, so there's nothing sensible to pin. I narrowed the PR description instead: counts are unchanged for valid geometry. A polygon with a NaN or infinite vertex is now tested only against points inside the extent of its finite vertices; before, every point was tested against the broken ring. No code change.

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Bugs

  • No bugs found for valid input. Point-to-polygon candidates come from ExtentIndex (inclusive <= bounds, monotone floor/clamp keys, so a point on a polygon's edge always shares a cell with it). Candidates are deduplicated, so each point counts at most once per polygon, matching the old per-feature intersects count.
  • Low confidence (~30%): the PR's "counts are unchanged in every case" claim doesn't hold for polygons with non-finite vertices. merc_extent skips those vertices, so the bbox prefilter can prune a polygon that the old mp.intersects would have matched. The new test only puts NaN/infinite coordinates on the points side. Posted inline at crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:1849.

Security

  • None found. No new input is trusted without a get()/let … else guard, and there is no indexing or unwrap in non-test code.

Performance

  • Low: ExtentIndex silently falls back to a full scan (every point against every polygon) when the grid would hold more than 1M cell references. For many large, overlapping polygons this restores the old O(points × polygons) cost without any signal. This is inherited from the shared index, not introduced here, so it's out of scope for this PR.
  • Nit: candidates allocates a Vec per point (about 1.8M allocations on the issue's data). The measured 10 s makes this acceptable.

Quality

  • Nit: zi, z_ext, zones are terse; zone_ext and polygon_zones would read more clearly.
  • The z_ext.intersects(&ext) check is not redundant with candidates (cell-level only), so keep it.
  • The new test is a sound oracle, since its expected counts use the same to_geo/intersects predicate as the old code. It also asserts the grid is built, so the index is actually exercised.

AGENTS.md

  • Compliant. No unwrap/expect/panic in non-test code. The test uses unwrap/panic!, which matches the 255 existing uses in this test module. No std::time, no UI text, no dependency or asset changes. There is no changelog convention in the repo.

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Compared with the base branch: the whole PR against main (merge base 13aee13 to PR head 734dcc7).

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Size before 310.0 KB
Size after 316.2 KB
Total size change +6.2 KB
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crates/analysis/src/tools.rs 310.0 KB 316.2 KB +6.2 KB

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crates/analysis/src/tools.rs: 1

4421-4422: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Heavy lift

Make the count test observe the candidate lookup in count_points, or reword the grid comment.

The grid check at lines 4421-4422 builds its own ExtentIndex from the polygon extents and asserts only that its grid exists. It does not call count_points. The brute-force comparison checks only the output counts. A full polygon scan in count_points produces the same counts, so a regression to a full scan would leave this test passing. The comment above line 4421 ("not fall back to testing them all") suggests the test covers the candidate lookup, which it does not.

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  • Make the test observe the index.candidates(&ext) queries that count_points makes, and assert on them. This requires a way to instrument the lookup, such as a counter or a helper the test can wrap.
  • Reword the comment so it states only what the grid assertion checks:
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-        // Enough polygons for the index to build its grid, not fall back to testing them all.
+        // Checks that an index over these extents builds its grid. This does not exercise `count_points`.

The reworded comment removes the misleading claim. It does not detect a full-scan regression.

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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs around lines 4421 - 4422:
Reword the comment above the `ExtentIndex::new(extents)` assertion to state that
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[Bug]: Summarize Within (countPoints) tests every point against every polygon: 1.8 million points in 4,562 polygons run for over 28 minutes

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