[Geojson] handedness of polygons

Keith Jenkins kgj2 at cornell.edu
Mon Mar 31 09:43:25 PDT 2008


On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 7:28 PM, John R. Frank <john.frank at metacarta.com> wrote:
>  Does GeoJSON offer a way of indicating whether a polygon is clockwise or
>  counter-clockwise?  Forgive me if this is in a wiki somewhere; I haven't
>  found it yet.

John, there was some related discussion in this earlier thread:
  http://lists.geojson.org/pipermail/geojson-geojson.org/2007-October/000278.html

I don't think any consensus was ever reached, and the ordering of
polygon vertices is not mentioned in the current draft 6, for better
or worse (depending on your perspective).

Keith



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