[OpenLayers-Users] display a border at the end of the world

[Phil Scadden]

"It's better to have a general solution."

Backend databases that maintain geometry POSTGis, Oracle SDO, and ArcGIS 
SDE all have their own market interests and drivers. With that go their 
own peculiarities. You cannot at either geoserver or openlayers side, do 
anything about topology management at the database end of it. You have 
to live and work around what is provided. A general solution would only 
be possible if all the database vendors did it. The sad truth is that 
very few people need to maintain topologies across the 180 line so its 
bottom of the list for these vendors. If my memory serves me right, the 
first time ESRI promised us a fix for the 180 issues was in 1988. "Next 
version" said our rep. We finally got something that worked for "many" 
cases in around 2002. A general solution for all projections? Still 
waiting - and that is just one vendor. When you save a geometry to 
geoserver, it ultimately has to write that into whatever your backend 
database is.

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