Hi If you look at the spec that is essentially what is contained in a shapefile. I think the actual types supported by shapefile are:
point, multipoint, Multi-line and Multi-Polygon. Jesse On 21-Sep-06, at 8:04 AM, Aaron Jackson wrote: > So is there a reason that Geotools only supports Multi* shapefiles? Is > that all that Geoserver uses? Is there a plan in place for a later > version > to support more geometry types from GML? > > The GML/Shapefiles that we get from Geoserver all seem to convert > to local > shape files without issues, so I'm assuming that at least with our > data we only > receive Multi* geometry types. The data from Minnisota Map Server > however seems > to use mostly MultiGeometries and other geometry types. > > Yolan > > ************************************************* > * Yolan (Aaron Jackson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * http://mlug.missouri.edu/~yolan/ * > * AIM: YolanLINUX, YolanOTHER, YolanLAPTOP * > * ICQ: 74624109 * > ************************************************* > * Doubling Technologies * > ************************** > > On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Jody Garnett wrote: > >> Aaron Jackson wrote: >>> So the only problem we're having with it is probably that it uses an >>> unsupported shape type? (GeometryCollection instead of >>> Point,Multipoint, >>> etc). >> GeometryCollection? No shapefile does not support that as far as I >> know. It >> actually only supports Multi* (so MultiPoint, MultiLineString, >> MultiPolygon - >> even single Point,Polygon,LineString is not supported). Shapefile >> is also >> limited to one geometry attribute per feature, something that GML >> and Oracle >> are not held back by. >> >> Cheers, >> Jody >>> >>> ************************************************* >>> * Yolan (Aaron Jackson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * >>> * http://mlug.missouri.edu/~yolan/ * >>> * AIM: YolanLINUX, YolanOTHER, YolanLAPTOP * >>> * ICQ: 74624109 * >>> ************************************************* >>> * Doubling Technologies * >>> ************************** >>> >>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Jody Garnett wrote: >>> >>>> Aaron Jackson wrote: >>>>> The GML is from Minnisota Map Server. I'm not sure how to tell >>>>> what >>>>> version of GML it is. I have attached an example of the gml below. >>>> Thanks, that looks like WFS1.0, which uses GML2 so you should be >>>> pretty >>>> good. We do test against MapServer so it would be interesting to >>>> know if >>>> it is a version we have not seen before or something. >>>> >>>> Jody >>>> >>>> >> >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-gt2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
