Improve handling for geospatial types [DATACMNS-481]

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Michael Hunger opened DATACMNS-481 and commented

Support rendering the geospatial objects to Well-Known-Text out of the box and construct them from WKT. Also add a converter between String (WKT) and Shape / Point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text

Add static factory methods for creating the geospatial objects.
Like Point.xy(x,y) or Point.latLon(lat,lon) (which is (y,x) )

Other important methods would box.toBoundingBox()
(lower left corner, upper right corner)

polygon.closedPolygon() that repeats the starting point.

All these would make working with the primitives much easier

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Jens Schauder commented

I can see how such a thing would be useful, yet I fail to see why it should be in Spring Data Commons. We currently only have conversions for types that are in the standard library plus those where there is a very common replacement (i.e. Joda Time).

Will close this issue if no convincing argument is made for this change in the near future