Opened 5 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#4378 closed enhancement (fixed)

Allow passing TINs to GEOS functions

Reported by: komzpa Owned by: komzpa
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS 3.0.0
Component: postgis Version: 2.4.x
Keywords: Cc:

Description

GEOS functions now fail with TINs.

They could work if we represent them as GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POLYGON(…)…).

Change History (4)

comment:1 by komzpa, 5 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

In 17396:

Allow passing TINs to GEOS functions.

Closes #4378
Closes ​https://github.com/postgis/postgis/pull/392

comment:2 by mdavis, 5 years ago

Ideally the docs should be updated to reflect this change.

comment:3 by dbaston, 5 years ago

It might be more clear have a function to convert a TIN to a GeometryCollection on the PostGIS side, rather than silently changing the type when passing it to GEOS.

comment:4 by mdavis, 5 years ago

Perhaps having both is good?

An explicit PostGIS function is good for explanatory purposes (and might support other functionality in the future). It also might be useful for converting the TIN type to a simpler WKT type for output purposes or compatibility with other systems.

But surely there's no harm in auto-converting as well?

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