[OpenLayers-Dev] feature.bounds versus feature.geometry.bounds

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi list,

this discussion came up again in ticket 2255 
(http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2255). I know it has come up before 
(but I cannot find the respective thread right now).

What is our policy with respect to setting feature.bounds or 
feature.geometry.bounds with values from server-side retrieved formats?

The current state of affairs in OpenLayers is:
-GeoJSON: sets the bounds to feature.bounds
-GML.Base sets the boundedBy info to feature.geometry.bounds

In my opinion it would be good to get one rule adopted for all formats, 
and for me the most logical thing is setting feature.bounds. I see two 
reasons for this:
1) in GML the boundedBy property conceptually maps to the feature and 
not the geometry
2) as you can see in the patch for ticket 2255, GML can have a boundedBy 
property but have no geometry included in the feature

Tim, can you recall why you wanted it to map to feature.geometry.bounds 
in GML.Base?

Best regards,
Bart

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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
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