On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Victor Gonzalez <victor.gonza...@geomati.co
> wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> Thanks for the quick response. Maybe it's a different issue then because
> we are able to extrude polygons as explained here [1]. After placing the
> height.ftl file on the corresponding directory, the KML file returned by:
>
> http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms/reflect?layers=topp:states&format=application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
>
> returns something like this:
>
> ...
> <MultiGeometry>
> <Point>
> <extrude>1</extrude>
> <altitudeMode>relativeToGround</altitudeMode>
> <coordinates>...</coordinates>
> </Point>
> <Polygon>
> <extrude>1</extrude>
> <altitudeMode>relativeToGround</altitudeMode>
> <outerBoundaryIs>
> ...
> </outerBoundaryIs>
> </Polygon>
> </MultiGeometry>
> ...
>
> And it is displayed as in the screenshots. However, if we use a point
> layer (I'm using a test layer with a single point) and perform the same
> request we obtain a KML with:
>
> ...
> <Point>
> <coordinates>...</coordinates>
> </Point>
> ...
>
> which doesn't contain the <extrude/> or the <altitudeMode/> tags, even if
> the latter is specified in the request. I assumed that's what the issue was
> talking about: internally always uses clampToGround, which results in
> missing tags in the KML output.
>
> Regarding the extrusion, probably the most useful result would be to place
> the point over the ground with altitudeMode:relativeToGround and
> extrusion:false. But that's not a real extrusion, actually. If you edit by
> hand the generated KML to add <altitudeMode> and <extrusion>, Google Earth
> draws the extrusion as a line from the ground to the point, as you say.
>
Yes, in that case, I'd create a new option, that adds the Z to the
coordinates based on a template, similar to extrusion, but wihout the
<extrusion> element,
and make it available for all geometry types
Cheers
Andrea
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