We present a major revamp of the point-location data structure for general
two-dimensional subdivisions via randomized incremental construction,
implemented in CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library. We can now
guarantee that the constructed directed acyclic graph G is of linear size and
provides logarithmic query time. Via the construction of the Voronoi diagram
for a given point set S of size n, this also enables nearest-neighbor queries
in guaranteed O(log n) time. Another major innovation is the support of general
unbounded subdivisions as well as subdivisions of two-dimensional parametric
surfaces such as spheres, tori, cylinders. The implementation is exact,
complete, and general, i.e., it can also handle non-linear subdivisions. Like
the previous version, the data structure supports modifications of the
subdivision, such as insertions and deletions of edges, after the initial
preprocessing. A major challenge is to retain the expected O(n log n)
preprocessing time while providing the above (deterministic) space and
query-time guarantees. We describe an efficient preprocessing algorithm, which
explicitly verifies the length L of the longest query path in O(n log n) time.
However, instead of using L, our implementation is based on the depth D of G.
Although we prove that the worst case ratio of D and L is Theta(n/log n), we
conjecture, based on our experimental results, that this solution achieves
expected O(n log n) preprocessing time.Comment: 21 page