[OpenLayers-Dev] Patrch for getting vector drawing working over the 180 line going.

[Eric Lemoine]

On Monday, August 16, 2010,  <christopher.schmidt at nokia.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 16, 2010, at 4:00 AM, ext Andreas Hocevar wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I stand corrected, at least in part:
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>> On Aug 16, 2010, at 09:37 , Andreas Hocevar wrote:
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>>>> I am still not sure that
>>>> doing this in the renderer rather than in path.js, polyon.js is the
>>>> right thing.
>>>
>>> I am. Fixing this in the handlers won't help for features that cross the date line that come e.g. from a WFS, because there you will likely have coordinates that don't exceed the world extent.
>>
>> I just asked Andrea Aime from GeoServer how GeoServer handles features that cross the date line. So if you store a feature with coordinates like -181 0, -179 0, GeoServer will accept that by default (but not in cite testing mode). And it will also return coordinates like this as stored, i.e. not as 179 0, -179 0.
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>> I do not know how other WFS implementations, or MapFish, or FeatureSever handle this.
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> FeatureServer returns exactly what you give it; it doesn't know
> what a world is.

Catching up on this thread... Same for MapFish.

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