Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > It seems that Andrea has already eliminated your two ideas Jody. > > I took a peek at the unsupported modules here: > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Unsupported > Try the following list instead: - http://svn.geotools.org/geotools/trunk/gt/modules/unsupported/
(live from svn is always good) > I had a difficult time determining what had been orphaned, as it appeared all > modules had a maintainer listed. Maybe it would be good > to desingate the difference between orphaned modules and unsupported modules? > You are correct the ones listed in the wiki are usually there because their is someone interested in making them part of the geotools libary. For the true orphans there is nobody to speak for them... > At any rate, I didn't see anything unsupported modules that would be ideally > suited to my particular skills. (Although I am interested in > learning what the Tiger plug-in is all about. I couldn't find any details on > that.) > I think it is support for the tiger data format? - http://svn.geotools.org/geotools/trunk/gt/modules/unsupported/tiger/review.txt - http://svn.geotools.org/geotools/trunk/gt/modules/unsupported/tiger/pom.xml > I have a knack for writing parsers, if that helps any. Good stuff; we are making up our own extension to the CQL parser (to support feature ids) if that is of any interest to you. > In the worst case scenario here are some of my pet projects that might serve > as an expiremental module in GeoTools: > DXF Parsing > What is DXF > JTS To SVG Conversion > Our renderer is usually hooked up to Batik for generating SVG, but it is a nice thought. > Route Alignments and Stationing > Have a look at the graph module and see if there is anything that interests you: - http://svn.geotools.org/geotools/trunk/gt/modules/extension/graph/ - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/Graphs > Here are some things I haven't started on, but would be interested in: > GPX (GPS Waypoint) Reader/Writer > There is unsupported/gpx - I think it just needs test cases (to bring it up to 40% test coverage) and a page of documentation (ie a code example, any code example) to bring it up to supported status. > FGDC Metadata Reader/Writer > That sounds fun, but hard. I thought you did not like standards? > Annotations/Labeling Support > We have TextSymbolizer based labeling right now; but the part that does the work (called a LabelCache) can always be experimented with - we should see if anyone has ideas? Or you could take a look at what facilities are offered now and let us know what we are missing. > Let me know if any of these light up a bulb. > I have lots of bulbs, my task is to find something that inspires you :-) Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
