There you go making me read a standard again. :] I'll take a look at the code for the unsupported module in the SVN. Then I will talk to Mehdi about possible using his module to accomplish my modest goals for working with the temporal nature of GPX entities.
Landon On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strangely enough there is lots of interest and activity on this topic; you > will see in the last week that Joda was considered, you will find that a > JAXB utility classes is used right now for this purpose. > > Due to the size of the JAXB dependency we are going to try and roll our own > and have a look at the result. Mehdi Sidhoum has joined the project and is > starting an unsupported module to that effect right now; if we like the > result it will be rolled into the core library - if not we may go with Joda > (but the idea is to wait for it to be rolled into Java 7). > > Wiki page seems to be taking shape here: > - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/GeoAPI+Temporal+Implementation > > Cheers, > Jody >> >> I know that working with time (temporal features) in GIS can get >> really complex really quickly, but I want to cautiously ask about >> existing support in GeoTools for SimpleFeatures with one or more >> temporal attributes. >> >> I know that Peter began to explore this area a little bit with his GPX >> code, and there are a couple of Temporal classes there. Is there other >> temporal support in GeoTools? >> >> What I'm looking for is pretty simple. Here is an example: >> >> Given a set of SimpleFeature objects that represent waypoints, find >> the waypoint in the set that is immediately "before" a given waypoint >> in the set. Here is what the method signature might look like: >> >> public void getWaypointImmediatelyBefore(Collection<WaypointSimpleFeature> >> argWaypoints) >> { >> // Implementation goes here... >> } >> >> There would be other similar, but simple methods. I thought I would >> bounce this by the mailing list before I took off on my own crazy >> implementation using Joda. I don't know if a "temporal feature" is >> something that could be abstracted with an interface, but maybe >> someone has already done it! >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> Landon >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
