BoundingPolygon (GeoAPI 1.0)

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org.opengis.metadata.extent
Interface BoundingPolygon

All Superinterfaces:: GeographicExtent

public interface BoundingPolygon
extends GeographicExtent

Boundary enclosing the dataset, expressed as the closed set of (x,y) coordinates of the polygon. The last point replicates first point.

Version:: 5.0
Author:: ISO 19115, OpenGIS® consortium
UML identifier (abstract type): EX_BoundingPolygon

Method Summary
`Geometry`	`getPolygon()` Returns the sets of points defining the bounding polygon.

Methods inherited from interface GeographicExtent
`isInclusion`

Method Detail

getPolygon

Geometry getPolygon()

Returns the sets of points defining the bounding polygon.

UML identifier (mandatory attribute): polygon

REVISIT OPEN ISSUE (a GeoAPI comment)

The UML allow an arbitrary number of object to be returned. Should we return an array? Furthermore, the UML return the most general type (Geometry). We could returns an array of some more restrictive type, or allow this method to returns some aggregate.