[OpenLayers-Dev] reading WKT Format and GEOMETRYCOLLECTIONS

[Eric Lemoine]

On Monday, July 26, 2010, Marc Jansen <jansen at terrestris.de> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> When using the WKT Format and feeding it -- via read() -- a
> GEOMETRYCOLLECTION we return an array of single features having
> geometries that represent the parts of the GEOMETRYCOLLECTION . It is
> AFAIK not possible to return one feature with a geometry of type
> OpenLayers.Geometry.Collection.
>
> Shouldn't we make it configurable how to handle GEOMETRYCOLLECTIONs?

Hi Marc. I think there's an ticket with a patch for that issue. To
help move forward with this issue you could possibly test the patch
and report back in the ticket. Thanks,

>
> And BTW, shouldn't read and write be APIMethods (at least for Format.WKT
> they aren't)

Yes they should. I'll go ahead and change that.

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