McCabe Walts

If we take a simple "banana-shaped" polygon:

and run the tool (Vector > Geometry Tools > Centroids) as follows:

we get the following output, which represents the centroid, but not the point on surface.

We can cross check this output using ogr2ogr as follows:

which returns the identical centroid:

whereas the following command forces the point on the surface of the polygon:

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