Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 14 years ago
#226 closed enhancement
Motion to remove PT_16BF from specification — at Version 1
Reported by: | mloskot | Owned by: | pracine |
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Priority: | high | Milestone: | WKTRaster 0.1.6 |
Component: | raster | Version: | master |
Keywords: | wktraster, type, float-point | Cc: |
Description (last modified by )
Recently, Frank and Jorge have pointed that there is no known good reason of supporting PT_16BF (16-bit float-point numeric type) defined in the original specification documents (see RFC1-SerializedFormat and RFC2-WellKnownBinaryFormat. Also, it is unclear of what's the purpose of this type.
I have never seen such a thing before and I'm not sure why it is part of the WKTRaster specification. I would suggest removing it. - Frank's post
Martin Daly and I, we agree that there is no point to support 16-bit float-point type.
This ticket is to propose (official) removal of PT_16BF type from the WKT Raster specification as well as from the implementation.
Any objections?