Geometry constructors (EWKT/EWKB)

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Author Name: Denis Rouzaud (@3nids) Original Redmine Issue: 7706

Redmine category:vectors

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Right now, only WKT/WKB can be used to import/export geometries.

It would be great to have EWKT and EWKB import/export methods, to avoid complex stuff as in [0]

[0] https://github.com/elpaso/quickwkt/blob/73870168d09589a9ab8d54f7d695e548c26e7751/QuickWKT.py#L144

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Author Name: Matthias Kuhn (@m-kuhn)

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I discussed this topic a while ago on IRC with jef.

The main point for not including this was, that the SRID must not be lost within this process. When loading as geometry column in a layer, this information is preserved in the layer SRID, but the geometry itself has no such variable.

I see two approaches to this:

• specifying the SRID as additional parameter for QgsGeometry::exportToEWk[t|b]( int SRID ) and passing an additional reference int& SRID to QgsGeometry::fromToEWk[t|b]() where the SRID will be written to.
• creating a new class QgsReferencedGeometry (or QgsEGeometry as in EWKT) which inherits QgsGeometry and holds an additional variable for the SRID.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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