[OpenLayers-Dev] projection property on Geometry?

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> but not all geometries are necessarily tied to layers are they?
> 
> Imagine a polygon created by a handler, which is then used in Filters for
> a WFS Request. There is no way to tell which projection the geometry is in
> currently.
> 

I think it's good to keep talking about this.  I've put a projection 
property on the spatial filter somewhere.

We've got a good bit of srs related thinking to do.  Would be good to 
decide where things make the most sense.

Tim

> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:56:12AM +0200, bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I am looking into ticket 1254, and this got me to wonder, isn't an
>>> OpenLayers.Geometry missing a projection property?
>> I don't think it's 'missing' it. It doesn't have one, but I've never
>> felt the lack :)
>>
>> Generally, projection information lives at a higher level: Typically, in
>> the layer or map (which the Geometry can get to through the feature,
>> usually?)
>>
>> See line 456 of Format.GeoJSON.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Christopher Schmidt
>> MetaCarta
>>
> 
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