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A: Why MultiPoint?, MultiLine? and MultiPolygon? live in separated module?

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    2626In general, GGL is dedicated to programmers who need to write programs that involve computations of a geometric nature. We hope to provide Generic Geometry Library interesting to developers of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system geographic information systems], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomatics  geomatics] and any solutions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial spatial] nature, and even to game developers. 
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     28== What is a concept? == 
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     30== Why MultiPoint, MultiLine and MultiPolygon live in separated module? == 
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     32Multiple geometry types are collection geometry classes introduced in [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ OpenGIS Simple Features] architecture and as such they are specific to geospatial applications. Because [wiki:FAQ#WhatisGGL GGL aims to be general purpose geometry library], it's been decided to maintain multiple geometry types in separate module. So, developers who are not interested in those elements of GGL can leave them out automatically. 
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    2835== How is GGL different to CGAL, GEOS, ...  ? == 
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    3037''TBD'' 
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    32 == Why multi-geometries live in separated module? == 
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    34 ''TBD'' 
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