org.opengis.geometry.coordinate

Interface Position

All Known Subinterfaces:

DirectPosition, Point

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDirectPosition, DirectPosition1D, DirectPosition2D, DirectPosition3D, GeneralDirectPosition, TransformedDirectPosition

@UML(identifier="GM_Position",
     specification=ISO_19107)
public interface Position

A type consisting of either a direct position or of a point from which a direct position shall be obtained. The use of this data type allows the identification of a position either directly as a coordinate (variant direct) or indirectly as a point (variant indirect).

Since:

GeoAPI 1.0

Author:

Martin Desruisseaux (IRD)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
DirectPosition	getDirectPosition() Returns the direct position.

Method Detail

getDirectPosition

@UML(identifier="direct",
     obligation=CONDITIONAL,
     specification=ISO_19107)
DirectPosition getDirectPosition()

Returns the direct position. This method shall never returns null, but may returns this if invoked on an object which is already a DirectPosition instance.

Returns:

The direct position (may be this).

Since:

GeoAPI 2.2