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Offshore islands

Small islands belonging to a mainland admin region are geometrically disjoint (multipolygon parts) and can be dropped by fillers that assume a single contiguous ring.

Class
Case to account for
Affects
3 conversions
01

Detection

MultiPolygon feature where one or more parts have a centroid far outside the bounding box of the largest part.

02

Mitigation

01
Iterate all multipolygon parts explicitly, never just the largest
02
Verify per-part cell coverage in QA rather than aggregate area only
03

Affected conversions

PolygonH3 (intersects)
OPEN
Admin polygonsH3 (max-overlap partition)
OPEN
Admin polygonsH3 (weighted crosswalk)
OPEN