Hello Sean,

In the zgeo.wfs, the GeometryIndex stores the geomatry as a WKT string.
But I do not want to keep it that way.

I will migrate to the type/coordinates format you propose.

Eric

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Sean Gillies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan and I need to serialize Plone collections to KML efficiently,
>  without waking up objects, and to help I have written new
>  zgeo.plone.geographer and zgeo.plone.kml packages.
>
>  zgeo.plone.geographer adds a "zgeo_geometry" metadata column to your
>  site catalog that is meant to hold geometry values like {'type':
>  'Point', 'coordinates': (-105, 40)}, and also registers an event
>  subscriber that reindexes objects whenever you georeference them using
>  the IWriteGeoreferenced adapter from zgeo.geographer. This keeps the
>  catalog metadata up to date. Note that zgeo.plone.geographer does not
>  add a spatial index to your site catalog.
>
>  zgeo.plone.kml provides a multi-adapter for the Collection content type
>  and registers a "kml-document" view. It also has a wrapper for catalog
>  brains that depends on the metadata installed by zgeo.plone.geographer.
>
>  Yes, there is a profusion of packages, but I'm finding it easy to manage
>  them with the help of a "policy product" as described in Martin Aspeli's
>  Plone 3 book.
>
>  Eric B: how does the zgeo_geometry metadata fit with your own catalog
>  work. Have I duplicated your work, and if so, what can we do to reconcile?
>
>  Sean
>
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