Sunburned Surveyor ha scritto: > I've been looking over the GeoTools 2.5 Javadoc for the code to access > ESRI Shapefiles, and I've got a couple of quick questions: > > Question 1: > I know the typical usage pattern is to obtain a ShapefileDataStore > from a ShapefileDataStoreFactory, and then use the methods of the > ShapefileDataStore to access Geotools Feature objects from the > underlying Shapefiles. If I just want access to the underlying Shape > (feature geometry) and Object (feature attribute values) data, can I > just create my ShpFiles object and create my ShapefileReader and > DbfFileReader directly?
Yes, you can. As far as I remember you're giving up spatial index support if you do (but maybe you simply do not need it?) > Question 2: > What type of Object is returned by the ShapefileReader.Record.Shape > method? Is it a JTS Geometry or something else? What is the quickest > way to get this object converted to a JTS Geometry? All the GeoTools code still assumes JTS geometries everywhere, it's just the feature api that became more general. So the code should be still generating a JTS geometry by default. Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
