As far as I am concerned, I would try to enhance geotools to better support the INSPIRE EU directive.
This directive is from the European Commission and all member states have to build a national GDI using all these ISO, W3C and OGC standards. The time frame ends with 2015, but many national projects have been launched already. As I have seen many countries and administrative units tend to use the ESRI stuff which forces the use of the ESRI server components. These components implement official interfaces but store the data in proprietary manner. Another fact is, that in my opinion, the server components are built for MS servers and only ported to other platforms, loosing performance. Another fact is that all European people have to support these projects paying their taxes. I would like to improve geotools to build a open source alternative, especially for poorer countries. To be fair, the first target are my customers, because I have to earn money, of course. I know this is heavy stuff, but I dont want to leave the battlefield without trying to do it better and avoiding "vendor lock ins" as we have seen during the last 20 years. christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
