Thanks for the info Jody. In your abscence some of the other programmers pointed me towards the DirectPosition class. I hope to come up with a solution that uses this class.
Landon On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sunburned Surveyor wrote: >> >> I'll be testing my GPX plug-in "live" for OpenJUMP this week. When >> these tests are complete I'll load the latest version of my source >> code to the GeoTools SVN. > > That is great news - I was meaning to ask you how the work was going. >> >> I'll like need some help then including my GPX module in the build process >> for GeoTools. (I think there may need >> to be some sort of review process completed befor this can happen?) >> > > After you have loaded it I do not mind going over the work with you folding > it into the unsupported/pom.xml etc. >> >> It should be very easy to read waypoints and tracks from GPX files into a >> program like UDig using my library. >> > > That is why I was going to ask you how it was going :-) >> >> Now that I am nearing my first release of the module I'm thinking about my >> improvements for the next release and I had a couple of questions: >> >> - I'd like to replace my use of JDom with an XML pull parser. > > I understand why; but I do not have any good recommendation. I know there > was some interest in pull parsers (for GML handling) a while back - but at > that time there was no clear winner. >> >> - Right now my code uses doubles to represent lat and long values. I'd >> like to create a convenient wrapper class to represent a lat/long >> coordinate (possible with an elevation). I noted that GeoTools has a >> latitude and longitude classes: >> >> http://javadoc.geotools.fr/2.5/org/geotools/measure/Latitude.html >> http://javadoc.geotools.fr/2.5/org/geotools/measure/Longitude.html >> >> Is there a class GeoTools uses to represent a Lat/Long pair? > > I have always used something like: > new DirectPosition( lon, lat, DefaultGeographicCRS.WGS84) > > There is a 3D WGS84 as well. >> >> If there isn't, what interface or class might I extend/implement to do so? >> I don't want to roll my own lat/long wrapper if I don't have to. >> > > Use DirectPosition and then you can smoothly reproject :-) At least that is > what I plan to do with your reader ... I can always draw DirectPositions > (almost anything else I have to guess). > > Jody > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
