[geos-devel] Dimension of EMPTY geoms

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Mateusz,

Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> AFAIK OGC SFS does say nothing about how to report dimension of empty
> geometry.
> 
> OGC SFS reserves values 0, 1, and 2 for dimensions of non-empty
> geometry, so I'd suggest to use negative value.

Don't confuse OGC dimension (geometrical dimensionality of the described
object, Points have 0, LineStrings have 1, and Polygons have 2) and
coordinate dimension (number of ordinates per vertex, which can be 2,3
or 4 in PostGIS).

HTH,
Markus
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