On Thursday 30 Apr 2009, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:34:23AM +0100, Peter Robins wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 Apr 2009, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:03:24AM +0100, Peter Robins wrote: > > > > I've been having a bizarre problem where the same data (from > > > > featureserver) has been displayed when in kml format, but not in > > > > geojson. Delving into the code, I find this is because geojson.read > > > > throws an error if there are more than 2 coords in a point. Why is > > > > this? 3d points are perfectly valid in geojson, and it seems > > > > illogical that the 2 formats should be handled differently. > > > > > > I believe, at the time, the logic was: > > > * OpenLayers can't do 3d > > > * If we read 3d, when we write it, we will write it wrong > > > * It is better to error at read time than fail silently at write time. > > > > > > I'd be willing to change this behavior, but it was originally > > > implemented by tschaub, so I'd prefer his buy-in as well. > > > > should I open a ticket and submit a patch removing this check? > > Yes, please do. It lets us keep a record, either way.
http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2070 It would be nice if this could be included in 2.8, as it doesn't affect anything else, so doesn't need extensive testing. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
