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
 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


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