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Simple

For points, multipoints, linestrings, or multilinestrings, a spatial object is simple if it does not intersect itself or has no self-tangency points.

For points, multipoints, linestrings, or multilinestrings, a spatial object is simple if it does not intersect itself or has no self-tangency points.

Polygons, multipolygons, and geometrycollections are always simple.