[QGIS-Developer] LineString vs MultiLineString - QGIS2 vs QGIS 3

[Matthias Kuhn]

If I understand correctly, the page states that each *feature* can be
multi- or singletype, whereas the question here was why the whole
*layer* is detected as multitype.

Bests

On 1/21/19 5:58 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Apparently there is a declaration of multi vs simple:
> https://www.gdal.org/drv_shapefile.html
> Shapefile of type SHPT_ARC, the corresponding layer will be reported as
> of type wkbLineString, but depending on the number of parts of each
> geometry, the actual type of the geometry for each feature can be either
> OGRLineString or OGRMultiLineString
> cheers
>
> On 21/01/19 17:43, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> Hi Matteo,
>>
>> In shapefiles, there is no LineString or Polygon, all line layers are
>> MultiLineString and polygon layers MultiPolygon.
>>
>> Only points come in multi and non-multi versions.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> On 1/21/19 5:31 PM, matteo wrote:
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> in QGIS 3 a shapefile is recognized as MultiLineString, while in QGIS 2
>>> the same file is recognized as LineString. What could be the reason?
>>>
>>> Moreover: is there and option to force to read a shapefile as LineString?
>>>
>>> Cheers and thanks
>>>
>>> Matteo
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