Very quickly, just to tickle your brains: OpenDocument Format, the Office file format used by OpenOffice, KOffice, and a smattering of others, has support for data structures like tables. There's also "drawing" support with graphical primitives (circles, lines, polylines, polygons, etc.) (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office)
Off the cuff, I see two possibilities in the remote future: 1] ODF as a standard file format for point, curve, surface and solid coverages (which need a table like structure: please note table cells already can contain predefined graphical objects like polygons) 2] Better GIS<=>Office integration by rendering to an ODF "drawing" file. Don't have to render to a raster anymore. Tickle, Tickle. Bryce ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
