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

[Jesse E. <je...@re...>]

Hi

If you look at the spec that is essentially what is contained in a  
shapefile.  I think the actual types supported by shapefile are:

point, multipoint, Multi-line and Multi-Polygon.

Jesse

On 21-Sep-06, at 8:04 AM, Aaron Jackson wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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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