[Geojson] clarification on Feature id

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Sun Mar 16 19:32:35 PDT 2008


On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:21:46AM -0600, Sean Gillies wrote:
> My original use case for id was that it would be globally unique, like
> atom:id, and support CRUD operations between clients and servers, like
> the WFS feature id. OpenLayers, for example, has feature ids in its data
> model, and could take advantage of server-provided ids.

GIS Servers and Clients, on the other hand, almost never produce
globally unique IDs, no? 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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