Re: [Geoserver-users] GIS newbie and the date line

[Joanna M. <jom...@gm...>]

On 10/30/06, Andrea Aime <aa...@op...> wrote:
>
>
> I have bad news for you... this problems is not handled at all in the
> Geotools code base, on top of which Geoserver is built, and it's not
> really trivial too, because proper handling does not only mean to
> modify bbox queries (and split them), but would also mean to merge
> features that are at the two ends of the shapefile in order to
> provide a seamless view across the date line...
>
> I don't know of anyone with plans to add this support soon, too
> (that may be you, since you have that, geographically obvious,
> but usually not often asked for, need)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea Aime
>


So there wasn't anything for me to miss. And there I thought the earth was
round ;-).

I recognize how this is not a trivial matter - it's one we punted on in our
one map-based search tool. For our immediate needs, we can do the bounding
box splitting and image merging client-side. Since our development work is
in Java, it might be a first step towards answering this problem in a
broader sense.

Thanks!
Joanna