[OpenLayers-Dev] Catch-22 with a polygon handler on 180 line - what does "citeCompliant" actually mean?

[Phil Scadden]

This is fun (not). If I create a polygon handler with handlerOptions of 
citeCompliant:false, then it will happily create a polygon that spans 
the 180. On the other hand, the geometry it returns will not intersect 
with any features on east side of 180 from a WFS because the coordinates 
exceed the maxEast value. On the other hand, if citeCompliant is true, 
then it will generate geom which works for a  WFS query - but then you 
cant draw a line over the 180. citeCompliant sets wrapDateLine for the 
handler but what else does it do? What does it actually mean?

It looks like I need to post-process the geometry from the polygon 
before using it in the filter anyway. For starters, most wfs servers 
need the query split on the 180 line into two  and combined with an OR 
(grrrr!).

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