> I don't know if that is an ESRI curiosity or following the standard, and > if so, what standard. If it should turn out to be a convention for shape > files but not for Simple Features generally, then any program that > creates shape files should fix the winding order.
I've found the following email from Frank Warmerdam that exactly answers that question : http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2008-June/017363.html . I imagine that ESRI adopted this convention because it must be convenient for some algorithms. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
