You can publish a layer where the attribute is of type "Geometry" and the values can be any geometry subclass.
While this is allowed by WFS it is a bit awkward for clients to use many of which are written with the assumption that a layer will only have one kind of content. -- Jody Garnett On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 04:53, Andreas Napkin GIS <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > During these past few years of working with OSS GIS software, > GeoServer/MapServer in particular, there is a dilemma with mixed geometry > types and the WFS standard that I have not quite wrapped my head around. > > As far as I understand, the WFS standard as it is defined by the OGC does > not support publishing mixed geometry types in the same layer and is thus > at odds with, for example, a PostGIS tables storing different kinds of > geometries. > GeoServer, however, is capable of publishing a WFS service that can serve > GeoJSON and GML with polygons, linestrings and points, all in the same > layer. > How does GeoServer get around this? Or am i missing something? > > Mvh / Best regards > Andreas C. Atakan > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > > Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to > this list: > - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: > http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ > - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: > http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html > > If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer > > > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >
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