On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Bedward
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
>> - having an attribute telling the x or y of the line (longitude,
>> latitude, x/y in meters)
>
> Do any of the uses you have in mind call for non-numeric attributes ?
> I have a use case where a String attribute would be good.

Hum, the cases I have in mind are about numbers, coordinates.
However the converters/property evaluation subsystem should take
care of turning numbers into strings and vice versa

>> - having some sort of hierarchy, major and minor lines (to have
>> alternate drawing style, though I guess with a slightly more complex
>> SLD one can get the same  by checking divisibility by a certain number)
>
> What about an integer "level" that can be associated with the line ?

Works for me :-)

>> - densification parameter to get long lines made of many points (so
>> that it reproject nicely, though one day I'd really like to do densification 
>> in the
>> renderer just as  we do generalization)
>
> I can recycle the code that's already in there for densifying vector polygons.
>
>> Would this be in line with a new "Lines" class in the grid module? I
>> can help implement it
>
> A new class, yes. The polygon classes Hexagon and Oblong have a base
> class GridElement. How would you feel about LineElement ?

Sure, why not :-)

Cheers
Andrea


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