Turfjs / Turfjs/turf

Centroid and center (and centerOfMass) are different for a rectangular polygon

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Since Jan 2, 2020.

@turf/centroid bug
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Description

During development I noticed a strange behaviour of Turf.js:

  • it calculates different locations for centoid, center and centerOfMass even in case of a rectangular polygon. Shouldn't these be the same point at the same location if the polygon is rectangular?

See gist example here:
example for center and centroid differences on rectangular polygon

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