Hi all, I think that topology cannot be simply geometry-based, it needs a Feature model to work with, so that features can be related to each other in a persistent way based on attributes.
So if JTS has to provide a topology model, I think there might be two possible solutions: 1. JTS could provide an abstract layer to access feature attributes, so that it could be plugged into any existing Feature model. In this case, the topological relationships could be materialized in the plugged Feature Model as normal feature attribute values. 2. The other solution could be treating geometries as if they were features (WFS introduces the idea of a geometry ID, so it seems that geometries are not simply attributes, but rather "standalone objects"). In this case, the relationships could be based on the geometry ID and somehow incapsulated in the Geometry objects. Cheers Sig On 6 Oct 2005 at 12:09, Matthias Basler wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I am as well interested in a good and intuituve topology API. -- Luca Sigfrido Percich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Agenzia Milanese Mobilità e Ambiente s.r.l. (http://www.ama-mi.it) Direzione Sistemi Informativi e Modellistica Via Beccaria, 19 - 20122 Milano - tel. +39 02 884.67.262 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
