Hello all
Development toward the release of Apache SIS 1.5 is taking longer than
hopped. But I think that a release by the end of July is possible. The
reason for the delay is that one of the most important features is the
upgrade to the latest version of EPSG geodetic dataset. This is a long
overdue feature, often requested by users. However, upgrading EPSG
requires upgrading `org.apache.sis.referencing` model from ISO
19111:2007 to ISO 19111:2019. The latter itself requires upgrading
Apache SIS from `java.util.Date` to `java.time`, because the new
features in ISO 19111 are a lot about time-dependent coordinate
operations. The tasks are, in dependency order:
* Migrating from `java.util.Date` to `java.time` — mostly done.
* Upgrading from ISO 19111:2007 to ISO 19111:2019 — partially done.
* Upgrading from ISO 19162:2015 to ISO 19162:2019 — to do.
* Upgrading from EPSG 9.9.1 to EPSG 11 — to do.
Other features already delivered on the main development branch are a
GeoTIFF writer, two more projections (Robinson and Equidistant
Cylindrical), automatically following `xlink` in a GML document, and
various bug fixes and improvements.
Martin
