Re: [udig-devel] Problem with attrib "the_geom"?

[Paul Ramsey <pramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shape files don't have a geometry name... the column only has a name 
when assigned by a system that hooks the geometry and attributes 
together into one tuple.  ESRI uses "SHAPE" as their default geometry 
name in Arc*. PostGIS, as noted uses "the_geom" (thanks, Dave). Some 
other systems use "GEOM" or "GEOMETRY".

P.

Cory Horner wrote:
> Antonio Redondo Lora wrote:
> > Recovering this post ...
> >
> > Anybody thinks about it like a restriction?
>
> I think we can budge on this one.  Seems this was just an assumption -- 
> we could defer to geometry name in the shapefile.
>
> Cory.
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