Drop duplicate or almost-duplicate edges #31
Description
Test for almost-equal lines, and/or equal geometries with different coordinate lists.
shapely has equals and almost_equals: https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manual.html#object.equals
Consider buffer/contains test:
def almost_equals(a, b, tolerance):
return a.buffer(tolerance).contains(b) && b.buffer(tolerance).contains(a)
Related concepts around smallest max distance between shapes - Hausdorff distance, Fréchet distance