silicate-package: silicate

In silicate: Common Forms for Complex Hierarchical and Relational Data Structures

silicate

Description

Decomposes spatial data (of various formats) into simpler forms, including paths, triangles or segments. A development tool for exploring the underlying structures of spatial data, and for converting it to something else. The models PATH(), TRI(), SC() and ARC() provide relational tables of all underlying entities, and more specialist versions PATH0(), TRI0() and SC0() provide more efficient topological representations of polygons or lines.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Michael D. Sumner [e-mail]

Authors:

• Michael D. Sumner [e-mail]

• Mark Padgham

Other contributors:

• John Corbett (the original inspiration) [contributor]

• Simon Wotherspoon [contributor]

• Kent Johnson [data contributor]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/hypertidy/silicate

• https://hypertidy.github.io/silicate/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/hypertidy/silicate/issues

silicate documentation built on Oct. 11, 2026, 9:07 a.m.