Hi there I'm new to geoTools. I'm wondering, if geoTools will solve my problems.
May I ask you some questions? I implemented a simple GeoWeb-Application to display geographical data (Tools: zoom, pan, draw polygon, home, getInfo, ...) On server-side there is a TomcatServer with a Java-Webservice. This service connects via a SOAP-connection (wsdl) to an installation of CartoWeb (only cartoServer is in use; http://www.cartoweb.org), which is implemented in php and is based on MapServer (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/). To enhance performance and to gain flexibility in the map-management, I would like to omit the SOAP-connection on the CartoWeb-service. Now I'm looking for a Java-API which could easily connect to the MapServer (or directly to shape-Files and PostGIS-Data) offering the following capabilities: - defining coordinates, layers with the necessary attributes, resulting image-dimension and getting back the desired image as png, jpg or svg. - layers: ability to choose layers, change their opacity and their ordering - user defined shapes: ability to put (in any way) some user defined data at run-time onto (new) layers and getting the map back as one image - labels: automatic position, predefined style (size, color, font) - queries (optional, if possible): to select some elements according a position-query (point, rectangle or polygon as query-shape) Is geoTools capable to do that? What effort is necessary to achieve my goal? I am also checking MapScript based on MapServer as an alternative, but at the moment, I am not sure, if that is a good solution, although it would be closer to the currently installed components Please let me know, if you can help me in any way. Thanks a lot in advance Dominic Sydler -- Dominic Sydler Java Software-Ingenieur Puzzle ITC GmbH www.puzzle.ch Telefon +41 31 370 22 00 Direkt +41 31 370 22 27 Mobile +41 79 613 87 37 Fax +41 31 370 22 01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
