Hello, Saying your question is naive is linguistically distinct from saying you are naive. I've never met you so I could not possibly know if you are or are not. Besides, I'm generally partial to the surveyors whose paths I've had a chance to cross (or rod to carry) so I'd be inclined to think highly of any new surveyor I came across.
No, I don't have any need to insult you. Your discussion frustrates me intensely because it is undirected, open ended, unresolvable and, yes, naive. You apparently have some ill defined aim to help some amorphous 98% of folk with their "common" problems whatever they may be. Also you seem to suspect that there is some easy way to solve their needs. Neither ring true but more power to you if you are right and can get that done! That's honest. I'd love to have their needs met by some simple library. Work with OpenJUMP or fork Geotools 2.4 if those can help you---the code is there for your taking! Build or participate in a great community and have fun the whole time. Or join Geotools trunk and do whatever work you feel like. For my part, I don't believe that a real GIS library can be simple. The truism in the Gnumeric project has always been that everyone uses about 20% of Excel---the same core 10% and then a totally different set of functionality for the rest of their use. So we still needed to support 100% of Excel plus, because we were motivated by being serious mathematically, we had to build a whole new set of mathematically correct spreadsheet functions. It's been a big, long term undertaking merely to do some calculations with well defined data types. For GIS, I'm certain it's going to be a much longer and harder road just to build the underlying library. I'm certain that you can't do anything without mathematically rigourous referencing. I'm also certain that you can't do good work on questions with large geographic extents if you don't have a complete handle on the closed manifold. I have a similar take on each part right through the whole stack: rigiour is needed for any robust, correct work with features, real coverages, analytic systems and graphical output. So that's my orbital path which motivates my work and my answers. I'm signing off from this conversation; it has taken too much of my time already and I don't see it going anywhere productive. Best of luck to you, --adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
