[Featureserver] LineString instead of MultiLineString

[Alexandre Dube]

Understood. Thanks for the quick answer. I'll go with option (b) : redo 
the shp2pgsql with -S parameter.

Still, if anybody has some doc that explains the difference between 
Multi or not-Multi geometries to give, that would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Alexandre

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> 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,
>   


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