Add `covers` and `covered_by` to documentation
@@ -1182,6 +1182,20 @@ A line's endpoints are part of its `boundary` and are therefore not contained.
>>> [p.wkt for p in contained]
['POINT (0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000)']
+.. method:: object.covers(other)
+
+ Returns ``True`` if every point of `other` is a point on the interior or
+ boundary of `object`. This is similar to ``object.contains(other)`` except
+ that this does not require any interior points of `other` to lie in the
+ interior of `object`.
+
+.. method:: object.covered_by(other)
+
+ Returns ``True`` if every point of `object` is a point on the interior or
+ boundary of `other`. This is equivalent to ``other.covers(object)``.
+
+ `New in version 1.8`.
+
.. method:: object.crosses(other)
Returns ``True`` if the `interior` of the object intersects the `interior` of
