[QGIS-Developer] WKT of a QgsPoint: Point or POINT

Richard Duivenvoorde rdmailings at duif.net
Sat Jan 8 13:17:19 PST 2022


Hi All,

Using the geom_to_wkt-expression to create a WKT string of my point layer in QGIS I see:

'Point (4.67931032 51.67420959)'

should this not be

'POINT (4.67931032 51.67420959)'  ?

that is: all capitals?

That is what I'm used to, what wikipedia shows [0]
Postgis creates with St_AsText: [1]

But according to gis.stackexchange [2] it is define as a OGC standard
  06-103r4  [3]
And there there is no notion of caps or not...

Others have an opinion?
Others have seen the QGIS version in the wild, outside of QGIS
Else I would propose to follow the Postgis standard?

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text_representation_of_geometry
[1] https://postgis.net/docs/ST_AsText.html
[2] https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/48269/where-can-i-find-the-wkt-standard-or-reference
[3] https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=25355

https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfa


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