[GeoJSON] Aligning implementations

Tim Schaub noreply at geocartic.com
Wed Apr 11 01:06:39 PDT 2007


Arnaud Diederen wrote:
>  
> Hello everyone,
>  
> since I've been reading this thread, I've seen nowhere that a client 
> would make use of feature type information; hence the necessity to have 
> the toplevel 'geometry' property, or the toplevel 'default_geom' 
> property to access the corresponding property in the object.
>  
> Since I'm pretty new to this list, maybe I missed something, but.. why 
> does nobody take feature type information into consideration?
> I strongly believe a sufficiently advanced feature inspecting/editing 
> client will *require* that information.
>  

Do you mean geometry.type, or some other type?  In the structures we've 
been tossing around, geometry.type is one of 'point', 'linestring', 
'polygon', etc. (or their CamelCased equivalents).

Tim




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