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

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Matteo,

What's the ultimate goal of this?

Being able to create shapefiles that are compatible with software that
only supports single-geometry-type features?

Best regards

Matthias

On 1/22/19 8:44 AM, matteo wrote:
> sorry, encrypted....
>
> On 1/22/19 8:43 AM, matteo wrote:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> thanks for the feedback and inputs. Well the topic is going tricky:
>>
>> * create a new line (just line because shapefile is not able to
>> understand single/multi) in Q3
>> * add a line and some parts to the same line
>> * load the shape in Q2
>> * the shape is already recognized as Linestring (and not Multilinestring)
>> * using the Processing algorithm works fine (lines are "separated"
>> well), but the layer remains, of course, Linestring
>>
>> The same approach in Q3 works fine. Before the algorithm the shapefile
>> is read as Multilinestring and after the algorithm as Linestring
>>
>> Does it make sense?
>>
>> Cheers and thanks
>>
>> Matteo
>>
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