[Geojson] Dropping Box

[Sean Gillies]

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> After an IRC-based strawpoll of all the people I thought were interested
> in Box, I've found that very few of them actually are.
> 
> One of the problems with "Box" is that most of the time, it's not mapped
> in such a way that it's reversible -- I've confirmed with three
> different implementors that they simply map "box" to a Polygon
> internally, which is Not So Great.
> 
> So, in accordance with Simple Features (and with simplifying the spec),
> I'd like to drop the 'Box' geometry type entirely.
> 
> This abandons similarity with GeoRSS in favor of conformance with Simple
> Features and mapping more directly into the geometry model used by most
> existing geo implementations.
> 
> Is there anyone in favor of keeping "Box" as a geometry type?
> 
> Regards,

Break down that box.

Sean