[postgis-users] error in online PostGIS docs?

[Rick]

This refers to the documentation whose main page is :
http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/index.html

I've been experimenting with getting geometry in different formats.

On this page: http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ST_AsGeoJSON.html it is
possible to get a dictionary like object that includes an object bounding
box.  I like this.

However I am not getting the results set out in the doc.  Unless I'm missing
something, either the function is wrong, or the docs are wrong.

We are discussing the fourth parameter in the call ST_AsGeoJSON()  The
documentation says that if 1 is set, a bbox is returned, it is not.  a bbox
is included if 2 is set.  Other option values appear to have no effect.
(see docs)

---

case where options = 1

*euclid=# SELECT id, etype, ST_AsGeoJSON( 1, the_geom, 1, 1 ) FROM
gis_geometry WHERE id = 1571;
  id  |  etype
|
st_asgeojson

------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1571 | polyline |
{"type":"MultiLineString","coordinates":[[[153.9,883.2],[246.6,812.8],[247.3,807.4],[243.5,801.7],[227.0,776.8],[225.9,771.4],[226.6,766.1],[238.1,711.7],[238.9,707.1],[241.2,702.1],[244.6,695.6],[246.9,692.2],[251.5,688.7],[546.5,472.7]]]}
*

case where options = 2

*euclid=# SELECT id, etype, ST_AsGeoJSON( 1, the_geom, 1, 2 ) FROM
gis_geometry WHERE id = 1571;

  id  |  etype
|
st_asgeojson

------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1571 | polyline |
{"type":"MultiLineString","bbox":[153.9,472.7,546.5,883.2],"coordinates":[[[153.9,883.2],[246.6,812.8],[247.3,807.4],[243.5,801.7],[227.0,776.8],[225.9,771.4],[226.6,766.1],[238.1,711.7],[238.9,707.1],[241.2,702.1],[244.6,695.6],[246.9,692.2],[251.5,688.7],[546.5,472.7]]]}
(1 row)
*


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Cheers!
Rick
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