If I understand correctly, the page states that each *feature* can be multi- or singletype, whereas the question here was why the whole *layer* is detected as multitype.
Bests On 1/21/19 5:58 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Apparently there is a declaration of multi vs simple: > https://www.gdal.org/drv_shapefile.html > Shapefile of type SHPT_ARC, the corresponding layer will be reported as > of type wkbLineString, but depending on the number of parts of each > geometry, the actual type of the geometry for each feature can be either > OGRLineString or OGRMultiLineString > cheers > > On 21/01/19 17:43, Matthias Kuhn wrote: >> Hi Matteo, >> >> In shapefiles, there is no LineString or Polygon, all line layers are >> MultiLineString and polygon layers MultiPolygon. >> >> Only points come in multi and non-multi versions. >> >> Cheers >> >> Matthias >> >> >> On 1/21/19 5:31 PM, matteo wrote: >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> in QGIS 3 a shapefile is recognized as MultiLineString, while in QGIS 2 >>> the same file is recognized as LineString. What could be the reason? >>> >>> Moreover: is there and option to force to read a shapefile as LineString? >>> >>> Cheers and thanks >>> >>> Matteo >>> _______________________________________________ >>> QGIS-Developer mailing list >>> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org >>> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>> >> -- >> Matthias Kuhn >> matth...@opengis.ch <mailto:matth...@opengis.ch> >> +41 (0)76 435 67 63 <tel:+41764356763> >> OPENGIS.ch Logo <http://www.opengis.ch> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> QGIS-Developer mailing list >> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> -- Matthias Kuhn matth...@opengis.ch <mailto:matth...@opengis.ch> +41 (0)76 435 67 63 <tel:+41764356763> OPENGIS.ch Logo <http://www.opengis.ch>
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