[postgis-tickets] r14917 - Edits to ST_MakePolygon doc

Daniel Baston dbaston at gmail.com
Tue May 24 17:56:30 PDT 2016


Author: dbaston
Date: 2016-05-24 17:56:30 -0700 (Tue, 24 May 2016)
New Revision: 14917

Modified:
   trunk/doc/reference_constructor.xml
Log:
Edits to ST_MakePolygon doc

Modified: trunk/doc/reference_constructor.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/reference_constructor.xml	2016-05-25 00:49:06 UTC (rev 14916)
+++ trunk/doc/reference_constructor.xml	2016-05-25 00:56:30 UTC (rev 14917)
@@ -1628,7 +1628,7 @@
 
 			<para>Creates a Polygon formed by the given shell. Input
 				geometries must be closed LINESTRINGS. Comes in 2 variants.</para>
-			<para>Variant 1: takes one closed linestring.</para>
+			<para>Variant 1:  Takes one closed linestring.</para>
 			<para>Variant 2:  Creates a Polygon formed by the given shell and array of
 			holes. You can construct a geometry array using ST_Accum or the PostgreSQL ARRAY[] and
 			ARRAY() constructs. Input geometries must be closed LINESTRINGS.</para>
@@ -1666,7 +1666,7 @@
 			  </programlisting>
 		</refsection>
 		<refsection>
-			<title>Examples: Outter shell with inner shells</title>
+			<title>Examples: Outer shell with inner shells</title>
 
 			<para>Build a donut with an ant hole</para>
 		   <programlisting>
@@ -1682,11 +1682,11 @@
 		</programlisting>
 		<para>Build province boundaries with holes
 		representing lakes in the province from a set of
-		province polygons/multipolygons and water line strings
-		this is an example of using PostGIS ST_Accum
-		<note><para>The use of CASE because feeding a null array into
-		ST_MakePolygon results in NULL</para></note>
-		<note><para>the use of left join to guarantee we get all provinces back even if they have no lakes</para></note></para>
+		province polygons/multipolygons and water linestrings.
+		This is an example of using PostGIS ST_Accum.
+		<note><para>The CASE construct is used because feeding a null array into
+		ST_MakePolygon results in NULL.</para></note>
+		<note><para>A left join is used to guarantee we get all provinces back even if they have no lakes.</para></note></para>
 		<programlisting>
 	SELECT p.gid, p.province_name,
 		CASE WHEN



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