On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 17:02 +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> hello there,
> 
> i am looking at using the geotools library to implement a tool that reads 
> polygon geometry data from a CSV file, and generate a corresponding shape 
> file.

Hey, 

this sounds like a good project. I'd encourage you to think about the
format you will use in the .csv file so as to solve the more general
problem. Excel has a simple map making module and therefore there is
probably a standard way to create the table from which to generate the
map. If you can find the standard and it seems reasonable, it would be
worth following that rather than re-inventing our own. I presume the
standard will define how to distinguish points, lines and polygons and
how to separate the geometry from the attributes.

One of my long term goals is to create such a subsystem for the Gnumeric
spreadsheet. It would be nice to build on your work,

--adrian



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