[postgis-users] Re: [postgis-devel] Proposal for supporting Extrude, Tesselate, and Altitudemode options in PostGIS KML generator

[Paul Ramsey]

How about ARRAY['extrude','1','tesselate','0','altitudeMode','clampToGround'] ?

Less parsing required, and still extendable.

P

On 2/18/08, Martin Davis <mbdavis at refractions.net> wrote:
> Ugh.  Requiring complicated combinations of bit fields strikes me as
> being pretty error prone.
>
> What about providing a string parameter which can supply the various
> options in a human-readable format?
>
> E.g. "extrude=1 tesselate=0 altitudeMode=clampToGround"
>
> Easy to read, easy to parse, easy to extend...
>
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > I hope others are testing this out...
> >
> > I have some aesthetic concerns with how you are passing arguments, I
> > wonder if there is a more elegant way do to it.  I feel like requiring
> > a precision argument in order to do the other options would be
> > preferable to the "size of precision" hack to distinguish between
> > options and precision.  Others may disagree.
> >
> > P.
> >
> > On 14-Feb-08, at 11:01 AM, Eduin Carrillo wrote:
> >
> >> Add the possibility to customize KML code produced by PostGIS with
> >> altitude mode  (altitudeMode), allow lines and paths to follow the
> >> terrain (tessellate), and  how to connect primitive to the ground
> >> (extrude).
> >>
> >>
> >> http://code.google.com/p/postexperiments/wiki/Extrude_Tesselate_and_Altitudemode_Support
> >>
> >>
> >> http://code.google.com/p/postexperiments/issues/detail?id=1
> >>
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