I don't know anything about the oceanography bit, but the SunRelativePosition is indeed a handy thing to have. It's also tightly coupled to the positional representation in GeoAPI (or should be... :)) It doesn't bother me that it's not used inside GeoTools, because this is a good example of stuff that's used mainly by client code. It's also extremely geospatial. The "main magnetic field model" could also accumulate in this package. Both, of course, should be implemented as Analytical Coverages (whenever the framework is finished).
I guess I'd be in favor of retaining this package as one-or-more "extensions". (Note this should not prevent us from forking it to JScience under a different license if they want it.) My main concern is that we retain a package within Geotools within which common geospatially-calculable quantities can collect. Bryce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/12/2006 06:20:58 PM: > I would like to remove the following package from Geotools: > > http://javadoc.geotools.fr/snapshot/org/geotools/nature/package-summary.html > > and give it to the JScience project instead (http://www.jscience.org > ). Those classes are not used > anywhere in Geotools. They are about Earth Sciences (oceanography) > and astronomy, which is out of > the scope of a GIS library. The JScience project seems a more > appropriate home for them. > > However, JScience uses a BSD-like license. Since the above-cited > classes are Copyright Geotools PMC, > I ask authorization from Geotools PMC to relicense the org.geotools. > nature package from LGPL to BSD > in order to transfert it to the JScience project. > > Do we have a majority? I'm +1. > > Martin. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
