Thanks Andrea I will update the blog post to link to that doc page.
> On Jul 25, 2014, at 1:58 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> Did we ever get a GSIP for this curve work? I went looking for something to
>> link to from the release announcement and could not find anything.
>
> No, there was no GSIP, the changes to GeoServer were trivial (at least
> compared to the ones in GeoTools) and
> did not really add curve geometry support, they just added ways to control it.
>
>>
>> I also could not find the documentation in the docs:
>> http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/webadmin/data/layers.html#layer-types
>
> Right, my bad, forgot about it. Just added them right above the feature type
> configuration.
> I did not modify the layer types because curved geometries do not make for a
> new layer type, nor they make
> for a new geometry type for what it's worth, because there is no such a thing
> as a layer that only has curved
> geometries inside, the 99% case is that you have polygons whose rings are
> occasionally compound curves, made of a mix
> of curved and straight segmetns, and linestrings that occasionally (but now
> always) are compound curves
> or CircularStrings.
> As a result, there can be no notion of a "curved geometry layer", we have the
> regular polygon and line ones,
> with some eventual "surprises" in their contents.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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