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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I read from <a href="http://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html">
http://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html</a> this comment:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“WFS spec. seems to require that features of a given feature type must all be of the same geometry type (point, line, polygon). This works fine for shapefiles, but some data source formats supported by MapServer allow
mixed geometry types in a single layer and this goes against the WFS spec. Suggestions on how to handle this are welcome (send suggestions to the mapserver-dev mailing list.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Without seeing a reliable reference I do not quite believe that mixed geometries are not allowed. Geoserver and probably also ArcGIS server handle this case by advertising unknown/mixed geometries as type='gml:GeometryPropertyType'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The metadata item gml_[geometry name]_type could have one more option “geometry” in addition to the documented list
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> point<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> multipoint<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> line<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> multiline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> polygon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> multipolygon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The list makes me think that don’t we support GeometryCollections?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Jukka Rahkonen-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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