[Geotools-gt2-users] Only supports Multi* Geometry Types

[Aaron J. <yo...@ml...>]

So is there a reason that Geotools only supports Multi* shapefiles? Is 
that all that Geoserver uses? Is there a plan in place for a later version 
to support more geometry types from GML?

The GML/Shapefiles that we get from Geoserver all seem to convert to local 
shape files without issues, so I'm assuming that at least with our data we only
receive Multi* geometry types. The data from Minnisota Map Server however seems
to use mostly MultiGeometries and other geometry types.

Yolan

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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Aaron Jackson wrote:
>> So the only problem we're having with it is probably that it uses an 
>> unsupported shape type? (GeometryCollection instead of Point,Multipoint, 
>> etc).
> GeometryCollection? No shapefile does not support that as far as I know. It 
> actually only supports Multi* (so MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon - 
> even single Point,Polygon,LineString is not supported). Shapefile is also 
> limited to one geometry attribute per feature, something that GML and Oracle 
> are not held back by.
>
> Cheers,
> Jody
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>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Jody Garnett wrote:
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>>> Aaron Jackson wrote:
>>>> The GML is from Minnisota Map Server. I'm not sure how to tell what 
>>>> version of GML it is. I have attached an example of the gml below.
>>> Thanks, that looks like WFS1.0, which uses GML2 so you should be pretty 
>>> good. We do test against MapServer so it would be interesting to know if 
>>> it is a version we have not seen before or something.
>>> 
>>> Jody
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