I would respectfully disagree... Not on the philosophical grounds of
styling vs data, but on the purely pratical ground that it would be a
pain to try and inject the geometry attributes into the generated XML
after the fact.
I can see why Google chose to embed the purely "geometric" styling
parameters within the Geometry XML, but it's quite a pain for several
reasons. One is that this kills compatibility with GML (and thus
prevents or at least makes it a lot more complex to reuse code that
reads & writes GML). I'm feeling this pain right now while working on
improving the JTS GML API.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In effect, this issue is about styling of KML, and not so
much about the real data itself. I wonder whether postgis
should be concerned with that too much.
askml() produces only partial KML fragments anyway, so you
always have to make an effort, external to postgis, to
produce valid KML for display in GE (e.g. using XSLT).
This may as well include styling.
I'm not suggesting this is not a good idea, but IMHO, it's
not essential.
GL
-- Original Message --
From: Dane Springmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: PostGIS Users Discussion <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:45:14 -0800
Subject: [postgis-users]
Re: [postgis-devel] Proposal for supporting Extrude, Tesselate,
and Altitudemode options in PostGIS KML generator
Reply-To: PostGIS Users Discussion <[email protected]>
As far as the KML proposal and syntax, I think both Paul and Martin's
suggestions are good improvements.
What about providing a string parameter which can supply the various
options in a human-readable format?
E.g. "extrude=1 tesselate=0 altitudeMode=clampToGround"
Easy to read, easy to parse, easy to extend...
If I had to choose between them I think the ease of reading of this
approach above is the nicest, if not most grass=like.
Thanks so much to Eduin for pulling this together.
Anyone have more thoughts?
Cheers,
Dane
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