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

["Antonio Redondo Lora" <arlora@xxxxxx>]

Don't worry Jesse, this isn't a problem at the moment.

Thanks 

>>> Jesse Eichar <jeichar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 02/01/07 5:34  >>>
Hi  So does this mean that you don't have a problem or do you still  
want to be able to specify the name of the attribute?

Jesse

On 1-Feb-07, at 4:50 AM, Antonio Redondo Lora wrote:

> Sorry .....  I think we got confused :S
>
> We have developed some plugins  depending on this attribute
> name in shapefiles geo resources. We try to extend them to work
> with Oracle resopurces that uses other synonyms like "GEOM" or
> "GEOMETRY", as Paul said.
>
> Obviously, in order to generalize plugins, we must chek the default
> geometry name and use it to get the Geometry object.
>
> Thanks, one more time.
>
> Antonio Redondo Lora
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>>>> Paul Ramsey <pramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 02/01/07 1:49  >>>
> 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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