On Friday 27 October 2006 11:11, Raif S. Naffah wrote: > 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?
got it. it's developed by MapInfo! i'll try to find out more about the format of data it supports but if anybody already has a URL for that information it wouldn't hurt posting it here :-) > 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, TIA + cheers; rsn
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