[Geojson] circles (was: Toward consensus on proposals)

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Nov 4, 2011, at 5:13 AM, ext Martin Daly wrote:

>> I propose that we accept or reject the Circle/Ellipse proposal without
>> getting too caught up in the units details right now. If it can't be
>> solved and stalls out we can terminate it then. How does that sound?
> 
> I hate curves as much as, if not more than, the next person, but I can see that a compact representation of a circle would be useful for some situations.
> 
> Also, while not exactly a precedent, we already have "bbox" as a compact representation of a rectangular polygon, albeit restricted to the "Feature" and "FeatureCollection" objects.

BBOX is not a representation of a geometry. It's a piece of metadata about a feature
or FeatureCollection. It doesn't replace a geometry.

-- Chris

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