[OpenLayers-Dev] centroid for linestrings

[Tim Schaub]

I think things are screwed up here in a few ways.  If we're going to
support a fast and slow method, I would think the fast should return
the center of the bounds and the slow should return the weighted
centroid.

I know that it was not intended for the first point of a line to be
returned as the centroid.  I think this was an optimization to use the
first component of multi-part geometries, and linestrings were
overlooked.

Tim

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Pierre Giraud
<pierre.giraud at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Recently I found out that the getCentroid method for linestring
> geometries return the first point of the line.
> According to this changeset [1], user needs to set true to the
> getCentroid argument (weighted) in order to get the *real* centroid.
>
> In my opinion, this "weighted" option should be set to true unless
> user explicitely set it to false.
> Any other opinion?
>
> Pierre
>
> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/changeset/10652
>
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