Hey- Eric Lemoine wrote: > Hi devs > > The recent GML update Tim committed in trunk makes the GML format > reads BoundedBy into feature.geometry.bounds. > > Chris and I discussed this over the IRC a while back, we came to the > conclusion that the geometry.bounds value should always be calculated > by OpenLayers, and should therefore not be set to an external, > unreliable value. This provides some guarantee to the programmer on > the value of this property. >
Sorry I missed the discussion. I don't get this at all. Unreliable? The point is to make use of what the server has already calculated and ease the burden for the client. > After this discussion I wrote and committed a GeoJSON patch, where > GeoJSON "box" properties are read as feature.bounds, a new feature > property dedicated to storing BoundedBy values read from the outside > world. Who would ever make use of the BoundedBy property? > > What do you think? Should the GML format be changed to address that? > At least I think we need some consistenry here. > > Cheers, > > Eric > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Tim Schaub OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
