Sunburned Surveyor ha scritto:
> Geotools Programmers:
> 
> I'm about to embark on a project to overhaul the way OpenJUMP imports
> data from simple files. There are really only three (3) types of files
> that are critical to include in the update (I'm still debating on if I
> want to update GML 2.0 support):
> 
> - ESRI Shapefiles
> - OGC WKT
> - Image Files (JPG, TIFF, PNG)
> 
> I thought this might be a good time to sniff around for an opportunity
> to utilize some low-level code from GeoTools in OpenJUMP. Our current
> Shapefile reader is from a very old release of GeoTools. We've made
> some minor fixes since that time, but I suspect the GeoTools support
> for Shapefiles may now be better than what we are using.
> 
> What is the current status of Shapefile read/write in Geotools? Is the
> code in good shape? Does it have an active maintainer?

Semi active maintainer, that would be me. I inherited the module
from Jesse and try to keep it going, fix the critical bugs and
try to make it faster on occasion, but that is it.

On the positive side it's heavily used in both uDig and GeoServer
so I would say it's a safe bet.

Cheers
Andrea

-- 
Andrea Aime
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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