ItemDistance

com.vividsolutions.jts.index.strtree

Interface ItemDistance

All Known Implementing Classes:

GeometryItemDistance
```
public interface ItemDistance
```
A function method which computes the distance between two ItemBoundables in an STRtree. Used for Nearest Neighbour searches.

Method Summary

All Methods

Instance Methods

Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`double`	`distance(ItemBoundable item1, ItemBoundable item2)` Computes the distance between two items.

- Method Detail
  - distance
```
double distance(ItemBoundable item1,
                ItemBoundable item2)
```
    Computes the distance between two items.
    
    Parameters:
    
    item1 -
    
    item2 -
    
    Returns:
    
    the distance between the items
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if the metric is not applicable to the arguments