[Featureserver] LineString instead of MultiLineString

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:41:08PM -0500, Alexandre Dube wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
>   I see in PostGis.py at line 117 that when a feature geometry type is 
> MultiLineString, it returns LineString instead.  Is there a reason for 
> this ?  Why doesn't it return MultiLineString ?

No part of FeatureServer 1.12 supported Multi-anythings. 

SVN tries to improve this, but incompletely, and is untested.

> 
>   But, I really wonder why featureserver don't return the correct type 
> of geometry.  So before doing anything, I wanted to have some comments 
> about this, please.

Multi geometries are simply not (1.12) or poorly (SVN) supported.
Patches to the latter are welcome.

>   Oh, and BTW I use GeoJSON format in OpenLayers and I can see * 
> @requires OpenLayers/Geometry/MultiLineString.js, so I suppose it 
> supports MultiLineString, correct ?

OpenLayers does have support for Multi types. The FeatureServer GeoJSON
writer does not.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta