Fellows Monks!
I am banging my head as to where to get started with this one. (this is not homework). I need your help/insight.
I have a field of data points that fall inside and outside a complex polygon. The goal is to determine which points reside inside, which outside and perform a different operation on either respective type.
Obviously I want to do this using perl; my generalized thoughts on the matter for how to do it are:
Essentially, I have the outline as to what I want to do, but no real clue as to where to begin.
Is there a module(s) out there that will do this sort of thing?
Any help that you can provide in this matter will be greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks in advance.

In reply to Determing whether point falls inside or outside a complex polygon by Anonymous Monk

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