FCMatchFinder.java

/*
 * The JCS Conflation Suite (JCS) is a library of Java classes that
 * can be used to build automated or semi-automated conflation solutions.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2003 Vivid Solutions
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package com.vividsolutions.jcs.conflate.polygonmatch;

import com.vividsolutions.jump.feature.FeatureCollection;
import com.vividsolutions.jump.task.TaskMonitor;
import java.util.Map;

public interface FCMatchFinder {
    /**
     * For each target feature, finds matches among the candidate features.
     * @return a map of target-feature to matching-features (a Matches object)
     */
    public Map match(
        FeatureCollection targetFC,
        FeatureCollection candidateFC,
        TaskMonitor monitor);
}