On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Martin Davis <mda...@opengeo.org> wrote:
> Very nice, Andrea. This seems like an excellent tool to make it easier to
> access all the coordinate system goodness inside GeoServer. (In spite of
> all the CRS libraries out there, I'm always surprised by how hard it is to
> actually just convert an ad hoc coordinate).
>
> A suggestion about the UI - for ease of cutting and pasting from other
> systems, it might be better to have a single text box for each of the
> coordinates. The ordinate values can be easily parsed out by splitting on
> non-numeric chars (in particular, commas and blanks). The coordinates can
> be output using some convention as a separator - comma is the obvious one,
> but blanks would do as well (which gives compatibility with WKT).
>
Yeah, I could go there
>
> And really, why stop at single coordinates? It would be pretty easy to
> allow entering WKT too, right? 8^)
>
Because the tool is provided to non authenticated users, there's no control
over it. A point is a point, a WKT can
be (theoretically) arbitrarily large, for that you already can use the WPS
reproject geometry process + process
builder (assuming the current user is authorized to access WPS, that is)
Cheers
Andrea
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