[geos-devel] Dimension and Coordinate Sequences

[strk]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:38:57PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Rather than ask for permission, I've just gone ahead and applied the 
> changes.

Good job.
Free Software is ... never ask for permissions !

> Future directions might include preserve dimension carefully through 
> geometry
> operations, and having the WKT and WKB Writer classes produce output based
> on the dimension of the geometry. 

Note that empty geometries will have NO CoordinateSequence associated,
which means you won't be able to get their coordinate dimension from
there...

> I haven't checked WKBWriter, but 
> WKTWriter
> is (annoyingly) only supporting 3D output based on a build time choice, 
> rather
> than dynamically based on the input geometry.

WKTWriter should accept number of dimensions in the constructor,
following JTS design.

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