Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
# Until model subclassing is a possibility, a mixin class is used to add
# the necessary functions that may be contributed for geographic objects.
class GeoMixin:
"""
The Geographic Mixin class provides routines for geographic objects,
however, it is no longer necessary, since all of its previous functions
may now be accessed via the GeometryProxy. This mixin is only provided
for backwards-compatibility purposes, and will be eventually removed
(unless the need arises again).
"""
pass