[Geoserver-devel] GeoServer Curved Geometries

Hi All

This is with reference to the below bug http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1443
It seme from teh bug update that curved geometries are not supported in GeoServer.I just would like to know is there any workaround to draw a curved geometry using GeoServer with PostGIS database. Or is it not at all possible to draw curved geometries… It would be very helpful if somone could point to some examples if any regarding this. Any imputs will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
ganesh


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Ganesh Jothikumar ha scritto:

Hi All
                This is with reference to the below bug http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1443
It seme from teh bug update that curved geometries are not supported in GeoServer.I just would like to know is there any workaround to draw a curved geometry using GeoServer with PostGIS database. Or is it not at all possible to draw curved geometries.. It would be very helpful if somone could point to some examples if any regarding this. Any imputs will be highly appreciated.

There is no support whatsoever for curved geometries in GeoServer
at the moment, and there won't be any for at least a few months.
GeoTools, the library we're using, has a couple of replacement
geometry models that are supposed to handle curves,
but at the moment they are almost totally independent from the rest of the library (nothing in GeoTools uses them).

Supporting curved geometries would mean changing the datastore
and the rendering subsystem to make both of them able to
understand curves.

Long story short, part of the work needed to support
curves has been done (that is, creating the new geometry
model), but a lot of work still needs to be done.
I'm not seeing this happening any time soon unless someones
starts working on it, either directly or by paying someone to do so.

Cheers
Andrea