[mapserver-users] Polygon Questions

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi again,

Does mapserver, or shapefiles for that matter, care if polygon points
are ordered clockwise or counter-clockwise?

In shapefiles, a polygon can be in multiple parts?
  1) Does this mean multiple smaller closed polygons which constitue a 
     large object?
  2) A large polygon, where the additional parts represent islands in
     the larger one.
  3) something else all together :)

-Stephen Woodbridge