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  # NAME
  
  GEOS - Raku bindings and wrappers for libgeos
  
  # SYNOPSIS
  
  ```
  use GEOS::Geometry;
  
  my $polygon = GEOS::Geometry.from-geojson('{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[0,0],[0,4],[4,4],[4,0],[0,0]]]}');
  my $buffered = $polygon.buffer(2);
  
  say $polygon.area;  # 16
  say $buffered.area;  # 60
  
  ```
  
  # DESCRIPTION
  
  This module provides Raku bindings and wrappers for the `libgeos` library, <https://libgeos.org/>.
  
  GEOS provides numerous C functions for creating, manipulating, and analyzing geometric objects.
  
  A fraction of the functionality offered includes:
  
  * creating geometries from WKT and GeoJSON
  * computing properties like area and length
  * performing set operations such as intersection, union, difference, and symmetric difference
  * using predicates like contains, intersects, within, touches, overlaps, equals
  * doing calculations like distance, hausdorff-distance, frechet-distance
  * doing manipulations such as simplify, snap-to, reverse, normalize, make-valid, minimum-circle, oriented-envelope
  
  For a more complete list of functions available through this module, see the [GEOS::Geometry](https://github.com/bduggan/raku-geos/blob/master/docs/lib/GEOS/Geometry.md) module.
  
  # SEE ALSO
  
  * [GEOS::Geometry](https://github.com/bduggan/raku-geos/blob/master/docs/lib/GEOS/Geometry.md) -- GEOS geometries and methods that relate to them.
  * [GEOS::Native](https://github.com/bduggan/raku-geos/blob/master/docs/lib/GEOS/Native.md) -- low-level interface to libgeos
  * [GEOS::Reader](https://github.com/bduggan/raku-geos/blob/master/docs/lib/GEOS/Reader.md) -- high-level interface to libgeos routines for reading geometries
  * [GEOS::Writer](https://github.com/bduggan/raku-geos/blob/master/docs/lib/GEOS/Writer.md) -- high-level interface to libgeos routines for serializing geometries
  
  # AUTHOR
  
  Brian Duggan
  