#23579: Default Geometry representation from WKT to EWKT
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Reporter: claudep | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: GIS | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Description changed by claudep:
Old description:
> Currently, the default `__str__` representation of a `GEOSGeometry`
> object is its WKT representation (e.g. `"POINT (1 2)"`).
> I'd like to suggest moving to the EWKT representation which includes the
> SRID information (e.g. `"SRID=4326;POINT (1 2)"`).
> For me, coordinates without SRID is like an encoded string without
> knowing its encoding, or a datetime object without the timezone.
>
> The change is trivial. There is a small backwards compatibility issue,
> essentially for people testing the output of `str(geom)`, and it also
> means that the SRID will also appear in `loaddata` output, which is
> welcome in my opinion.
>
> Comments welcome.
New description:
Currently, the default `__str__` representation of a `GEOSGeometry` object
is its WKT representation (e.g. `"POINT (1 2)"`).
I'd like to suggest moving to the EWKT representation which includes the
SRID information (e.g. `"SRID=4326;POINT (1 2)"`).
For me, coordinates without SRID is like an encoded string without knowing
its encoding, or a datetime object without the timezone.
The change is trivial. There is a small backwards compatibility issue,
essentially for people testing the output of `str(geom)`, and it also
means that the SRID will also appear in `dumpdata` output, which is
welcome in my opinion.
Comments welcome.
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