It is a limitation of the shapefile format. The geometry is actually stored
in a separate file (and does not actually have an attribute name). Both
GeoTools and gvSIG are pretending the geometry comes from a "the_geom"
attribute in order to give you a consistent way of accessing feature values.
There are a few other restrictions on the shapefile format. You cannot have
a single shapefile with mixed geometry content (the contents all have to be
the same kind of geometry: all point, all line string or all polygons).
Jody Garnett
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:47 AM, shiguera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm working with SimpleFeatureTypeBuilder to build and save a shapefile.
> I follow the snippet in [1].
> After created, I'm trying to see the layer with gvSIG. I can only see it
> if I name 'the_geom' to de geometry property. Is it correct?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
>
> Santiago Higuera
>
> [1] http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/library/main/feature.html
>
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