Sorry, I forgot the screenshots:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62764853/extruded_point.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62764853/non_extruded_point.png
2013/12/19 Victor Gonzalez <victor.gonza...@geomati.co>
> I'm not sure I understand the idea of the new option. The heights
> templates [1] do exactly what we want to do, right? In fact, I just checked
> that with Geoserver 2.3.0 we obtain the results we expect for points (I'm
> attaching two screenshots with and without extrusion); but polygons don't
> extrude in Geoserver 2.3.0 (we cannot obtain the results shown in [1]). In
> Geoserver 2.4.0 we have the opposite, we can extrude polygons (as in [1])
> but we cannot "extrude" our points (as in my screenshots with 2.3.0).
>
> Does this mean that this is a different issue than [2]?
>
> Regards,
> Víctor.
>
> P.D: The URLs I used for the screenshots are:
>
>
> http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms/reflect?layers=sde:test&format=application/vnd.google-earth.kml%2Bxml&format_options=extrude:false
>
> http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms/reflect?layers=sde:test&format=application/vnd.google-earth.kml%2Bxml&format_options=extrude:true
>
> [1]
> http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/googleearth/tutorials/heights/heights.html
> [2] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-6167
>
>
>
> 2013/12/18 Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>
>
>> 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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