JuliaGeometry
Redesigning Metadata processing and creating of meta-geometries
The current metadata handling features have been really interesting and there has been interest to expand it's functionality #50 #49. The above mentioned issues have been made keeping in mind the heterogeneous nature of geometry/properties data. The present methods don't support this fully. If I am correct, the way of creating meta-geometries is putting geometries and properties together into a StructArray, which works well for single geometries/properties or homogeneous geometries. The problem arises when we need a heterogeneous geometry with heterogeneous type like #49.
Now this functionality has been tested and implemented here we wish to extend it to GeometryBasics so that other use cases too can benefit from this API.
So the above GeoJSONTables solution works well for a list of Features(meta-geometries). Currently, what all can we have?
- A Feature(meta-geometry struct that has properties and geometries together)
- A StructArray that holds the metageometry I am not sure if we want to implement geometry specific metageometry constructors(we might as well).
https://github.com/Sov-trotter/GeometryBasics.jl/blob/meta_exp/src/metatest.jl is a start.
I think this is quite needed for a lot of geometries and algorithmic shortcuts. Is the current proposal non-breaking?
It is breaking indeed. We are moving from something like PointMeta to Meta{Point}. This is to solve #49.