protected boolean indexOfAfterCheck(Geometry linearGeom, Coordinate testPt) {
    LocationIndexedLine indexedLine = new LocationIndexedLine(linearGeom);

    // check locations are consecutive
    LinearLocation loc1 = indexedLine.indexOf(testPt);
    LinearLocation loc2 = indexedLine.indexOfAfter(testPt, loc1);
    if (loc2.compareTo(loc1) <= 0) return false;

    // check extracted points are the same as the input
    Coordinate pt1 = indexedLine.extractPoint(loc1);
    Coordinate pt2 = indexedLine.extractPoint(loc2);
    if (!pt1.equals2D(testPt)) return false;
    if (!pt2.equals2D(testPt)) return false;

    return true;
  }
 protected Coordinate extractOffsetAt(
     Geometry linearGeom, Coordinate testPt, double offsetDistance) {
   LocationIndexedLine indexedLine = new LocationIndexedLine(linearGeom);
   LinearLocation index = indexedLine.indexOf(testPt);
   return indexedLine.extractPoint(index, offsetDistance);
 }