Opened 5 months ago

Last modified 5 months ago

#35783 assigned New feature

Add the ability to natively filter geometries by the number of dimensions used by a Geometry.

Reported by: David Smith Owned by: David Smith
Component: GIS Version: 5.1
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: yes
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no
Pull Requests:18637 build:success

Description

PostGIS and SpatiaLite have a ST_NDims function which returns the number of dimensions a geometry. I propose to add a function similar to what is proposed for GeometryType in #28696.

Support for Oracle should also be possible with its GET_DIMS( ) function see docs . However, I couldn't find a similar function on MySQL/MariaDB.

An implementation for PostGIS/SpatiaLite would look something like this.

class NumDimensions(GeoFunc):
    function = "ST_NDims"
    output_field = IntegerField()
    arity = 1

Which would allow this to be used in QuerySets such as annotating the number of dimensions in a geometry.

Country.objects.annotate(num_dims=functions.NumDimensions("geom"))

I'll prepare a patch if accepted.

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Change History (3)

comment:1 by Claude Paroz, 5 months ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:2 by David Smith, 5 months ago

Has patch: set

comment:3 by Natalia Bidart, 5 months ago

Patch needs improvement: set

PR has a an approval from Claude, but I'm setting the flag "patch needs improvement" until we clarify next steps for Oracle and potentially MySQL.

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