From a71fc544c6913c5d204590d57fbb32a6bf7af08c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Fedoseev <fedoseev.sergey@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:16:08 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] [1.8.x] Fixed #25660 -- Documented GEOSGeometry.dims

Backport of f98126a05aeb1671c8036900a2720e21645318ad from master
---
 docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
index f856a96723..ac045f4452 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
@@ -172,6 +172,17 @@ Properties
 
 Returns the coordinates of the geometry as a tuple.
 
+.. attribute:: GEOSGeometry.dims
+
+Returns the dimension of the geometry:
+
+* ``0`` for :class:`Point`\s and :class:`MultiPoint`\s
+* ``1`` for :class:`LineString`\s and :class:`MultiLineString`\s
+* ``2`` for :class:`Polygon`\s and :class:`MultiPolygon`\s
+* ``-1`` for empty :class:`GeometryCollection`\s
+* the maximum dimension of its elements for non-empty
+  :class:`GeometryCollection`\s
+
 .. attribute:: GEOSGeometry.empty
 
 Returns whether or not the set of points in the geometry is empty.