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Document the fate of M coordinates #1387

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Regarding ST_SharedPaths(), somebody told me:

I can assure you (after checking the source code) that SpatiaLite
returns exactly the result it receives from GEOS, so I deduce that it's
GEOS that resets the M coordinates to ZERO.

Unfortunately, the GEOS documentation says absolutely nothing about
this, but it's quite common for topological operations to ignore the M
coordinate, which doesn't surprise me at all. It should also be noted
that these details could easily change from one version of GEOS to
another.

To sum up: there are probably many GEOS-based functions inside
SpatiaLite that present problems of this type. But when the GEOS doc is
obscure or incomplete it's practically impossible to keep track of it.

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