[geos-devel] Dimension and Coordinate Sequences

[Paul Ramsey]

Great, the more victims^H^H^H^H^H^Husers we have, the better!

(Surely Ingres wants M! :)

P

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>
>> This would be an excellent time! :) It is raised about every 2 months
>> on the list, both the oddness of the return value and the fact that we
>> have no M value support.
>
> strk wrote:
>> Sure, you may try that.
>> Only, I highly dubt any computation will check dimension of input(s)
>> and use that to dimension the output.
>
> Paul, strk,
>
> OK, I'm going to make a quick pass to try and implement support for
> differentiating between 2D and 3D dimension of geometries in the default
> CoordinateSequence related classes and ensure that the path from WKB, and
> WKT to GEOS Geometries and back will preserve dimension.
>
> At this time I'm not going to try and address M, nor to start going into
> the algorithms and making them dimension aware.
>
> This is driven by the Ingres implementation effort, by the way.
>
> Best regards,
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