OGRGeometry::Intersect does not work correctly for geographic coordinate system

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OGRGeometry Intersect method does not work correctly in a geographic coordinate system (lat/lon coordinates), because it does not account for periodicity (i.e. "wrap-around" of lon-coordinate at dateline). OGRGeometry already has an associated spatial reference (with the method IsGeographic()). However, a remaining problem is that polygon edges are not well-defined in such a coordinate system (although the shortest connection is probably a reasonable assumption).

As a test case: 

1) download & tar xzf the following wrs2 zone definition file: 
ftp://ftp.glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/www/shapefile/wrs2.tar.gz 

2) execute 'ogrinfo -al wrs2.shp -spat 42 42 44 44' 
 
ogrinfo will wrongly report wrs2 zones crossing the dateline, because the intersection routines' min-max check inverts the longitudal extent of these cells.

[warmerdam]

It is unlikely that I will correct this in the near future. It is not
really my expectation that I will make the OGR geometry functions work
smoothly in dateline spanning situations.  It is hard, and geometry 
*operations* like that are more the domain of packages like GEOS.

[Jukka Rahkonen]

From ​http://www.gdal.org/classOGRGeometry.html

Intersect (OGRGeometry *) const CPL_WARN_DEPRECATED("Non standard method. Use Intersects() instead")

Because this method does not exist if won't fix either.