line-in-polygon : A spatial operation in which arcs in one coverage are overlaid with polygons in another to determine which arcs, or portions of arcs, are contained within the polygons.
Point-in-Polygon and Line-In-Polygon
Point-in-Polygon is a topological overlay procedure which determines the spatial coincidence of points and polygons. Points are assigned the attributes of the polygons within which they fall.
Point-in-polygon and line-in-polygon operations are fundamental neighborhood process for vector-based GISs (Aronoff 1989). A point-in-polygon function is used to determine which features (as defined by polygons) cover a specific point.
As a variation, one or more polygons are selected and all points within them are likewise assigned new attributes. Process can be extended to apply to linear features (line-in-polygon) and closed polygons (polygon-in-polygon) located within or ...
 See also: Vector, Polygon, Map, Feature, Layer
  
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