[Community] Heterogeneous Geometry Collections

[Sean Gillies]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Aron Bierbaum wrote:

> We have recently come across a need to support heterogeneous geometry
> collections. It appears that Shapely supports handling these
> geometries, but does not allow the user to create them from Python.
> There is actually a note in the GeometryCollection class that says "#
> Not to be created, but to be produced as a product of operations."  Is
> there a specific reason that this was left out, or do we just need to
> find time to implement the correct factory methods in Python?
>
> Thanks,
> Aron

It's been my opinion that heterogeneous collections are something to  
avoid, but I'm not opposed to supporting them in 1.2.

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Sean