Hi,
I read from http://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html this comment:
"WFS spec. seems to require that features of a given feature type must all be
of the same geometry type (point, line, polygon). This works fine for
shapefiles, but some data source formats supported by MapServer allow mixed
geometry types in a single layer and this goes against the WFS spec.
Suggestions on how to handle this are welcome (send suggestions to the
mapserver-dev mailing list."
Without seeing a reliable reference I do not quite believe that mixed
geometries are not allowed. Geoserver and probably also ArcGIS server handle
this case by advertising unknown/mixed geometries as
type='gml:GeometryPropertyType'
The metadata item gml_[geometry name]_type could have one more option
"geometry" in addition to the documented list
point
multipoint
line
multiline
polygon
multipolygon
The list makes me think that don't we support GeometryCollections?
-Jukka Rahkonen-
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