hello Andrea + Adrian, thank you both for your prompt (and positive) reply!
Adrian, any idea where to get more information about that Excel Module? or what it's called? On Thursday 26 October 2006 17:44, Andrea Aime wrote: > Raif S. Naffah ha scritto: > > ...have you encountered > > any constraints/limitations you would like to share? any specific > > documentation i should look at/read more closely before starting? > > ...probably read the csv file straight without a > datastore since that would be faster to implement. > > Have a look at docs here: > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Features and, on Thursday 26 October 2006 19:42, Adrian Custer wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 17:02 +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote: > > ... > > 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. > > ...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, cheers; rsn
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