On 14/06/2010, at 1:31 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
>> Correct; I would phrase it as. When true we assume that DMS entries
>> are understood to be represented as decimal degrees; this assumption
>> is shared by many applications but may not be correct for your
>> dataset. When false we carefully do not assume DMS entries are
>> decimal deegrees; this limits the number of codes supported
>> This flag would even still be useful when/if we do support DMS (as
>> chances are a lot of data is actually recodded in decimal deegrees).
>> Andrea this is just my preference (to have a flag) I would also
>> settle for a warning in the javadocs.
> 
> Sounds good to me. How would that flag look like?
> Something to be set in Hints? A system variable?

A global hint is best; I have not had much luck with global hints assigned to 
the GeoTools class; and prefer the system variable use. When you create a Hint 
you have a chance to assign its default value as coming from a system variable 
or something.

> From the pov of patching that behavior somthing behaving like a global 
> variable would be best

And I think we both agree it should be "true" by default.

Jody


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