Check if Point Is Inside A Polygon

Question

I want to check if a point lies within a specific polygon. The polygon is:

 polygon=   [ [-73.89632720118, 40.8515320489962],
              [-73.8964878416508, 40.8512476593594],
              [-73.8968799791431, 40.851375925454],
              [-73.8967188588015, 40.851660158514],
              [-73.89632720118, 40.8515320489962] ]

The points I want to check are:

1 = [40.8515320489962,-73.89632720118]
2 = [40.8512476593594,-73.8964878416508]
3 = [40.851375925454,-73.8968799791431]
4 = [40.851660158514,-73.8967188588015]
5 = [40.8515320489962,-73.89632720118]

How can I tell if each of these points lies within this polygon?

The algorithm below does not work. I don't know why.

pt[lat,long]

function isPointInPoly(poly, pt){
    for(var c = false, i = -1, l = poly.length, j = l - 1; ++i < l; j = i)
        ((poly[i][1] <= pt[1] && pt[1] < poly[j][1]) || (poly[j][1] <= pt[1] && pt[1] < poly[i].y))
        && (pt[0] < (poly[j][0] - poly[i][0]) * (pt[1] - poly[i][1]) / (poly[j][1] - poly[i][1]) + poly[i][0])
        && (c = !c);
    return c;
}

I don't want to use a third party solution such as google maps API or this one https://github.com/mattwilliamson/Google-Maps-Point-in-Polygon.

My attempt is here: http://jsfiddle.net/nvNNF/2/

Answer 1

There is a project on Github with code: https://github.com/substack/point-in-polygon (MIT license):

function inside(point, vs) {
    // ray-casting algorithm based on
    // https://wrf.ecse.rpi.edu/Research/Short_Notes/pnpoly.html/pnpoly.html
    
    var x = point[0], y = point[1];
    
    var inside = false;
    for (var i = 0, j = vs.length - 1; i < vs.length; j = i++) {
        var xi = vs[i][0], yi = vs[i][1];
        var xj = vs[j][0], yj = vs[j][1];
        
        var intersect = ((yi > y) != (yj > y))
            && (x < (xj - xi) * (y - yi) / (yj - yi) + xi);
        if (intersect) inside = !inside;
    }
    
    return inside;
};

Usage:

// array of coordinates of each vertex of the polygon
var polygon = [ [ 1, 1 ], [ 1, 2 ], [ 2, 2 ], [ 2, 1 ] ];
inside([ 1.5, 1.5 ], polygon); // true

The test function is here: https://github.com/substack/point-in-polygon/blob/master/index.js

Note: This code doesn't work reliably when the point is a corner of the polygon or on an edge. There is an improved version here: https://github.com/mikolalysenko/robust-point-in-polygon