[Thuban-devel] Re: Base class for Shapes?

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:29:21PM +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:08:44PM +0100, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> > Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan at intevation.de> writes:
> > > I worked out an idea about a Base Shape Class.
> 
> > > The idea is that we might want to have Shapes/Shapestores
> > > that are kept in memory instead in a file in order
> > > have a opportunity to create/modify them with arbitrary
> > > algorithms implemented in Thuban(or in its extensions).
> 
> I agree that we should separate storage of geographic data 
> from the accessing object interface.
> 
> So does Shape refer to geographic object or shapefiles (one specific
> format) here?

Geographic object.

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