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Request for Guidance - Point in Polygon and S2

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Would it be possible for the good folks here to please help me with a problem that I am trying to solve with the S2 geometry library? I am a complete novice, so please bear with me if I do not make sense.

**Problem**
I am trying to determine the best way to write an offline point-in-polygon check for the Android platform. Essentially, convert (lat,lng) to a country. In future, I plan to increase the granularity to regions, states, provinces, counties and cities/towns.

**Research**
My initial research landed me up on https://github.com/AReallyGoodName/OfflineReverseGeocode with http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/cities1000.zip. From what I understand, this is (lat,lng) to nearest neighbor. Now, I do get the country from this, but it relies on finding the nearest neighbor city with population, which may not be accurate.

Further research led me to S2. It is here that I am struggling, and request your guidance.

**Current Approach**
A) Computation at app startup:
1) Get geojson co-ordinates from http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/shapes_simplified_low.zip.
2) For each country,
i) Convert geojson co-ordinates into S2 LatLng and then S2 Loops.
ii) Build S2 Polygon using S2 Loops.
iii) If MultiPolygon, use S2PolygonBuilder.addPolygon() to add additional polygons.

B) LatLng input during app functioning:
1) Convert Lat Lng Input to S2Point.
2) Iterate over country polygons, checking for S2Polygon.contains(S2Point).
3) Return country.

**Questions**
1) Some geojson countries are "multipolygon", whereas there is no multipolygon in S2. Are S2 polygons equivalent to multipolygons from geojson?
2) Can the geojson to S2Polygon initial computation result be persisted, to avoid re-computation at app startup?
3) Geonames geojson input does not seem to conform to counter clockwise (CCW) convention. Would S2PolygonBuilder be able to tackle this correctly?
4) Is there a better way to search for point-in-polygon rather than iterating over each countries S2Polygons.contains function call? Does this mechanism also help avoid polygon re-computation?
5) Is there a better way to achieve the offline point-in-polygon check?
6) Is there a better (small, accurate) source for country boundaries for use with S2?

Thank you for your time.

@eengle @hagbard @kluever @cpovirk

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未指定任何仓库文件、测试或入口点。先查看所引用的 S2Polygon、S2PolygonBuilder、S2Loop 和 S2Point API,然后明确关于 Android 和离线 point-in-polygon 的六个问题中,哪些应该转化为仓库中的具体更改;范围和验收标准达成一致后,任务才算完成。

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