Hello Tim Tim Swanson a écrit : > My first question involves the status of the relationship between the > GeoAPI and GeoTools.
Very close indeed. There is a bit of history: * GeoAPI has been funded in 2002 by the same guy (James McGill) who funded GeoTools. The aim at that time was to provide common API for independant projects like GeoTools and OpenJump, so we could exchange code more easily. * Later on, the Open Geospatial consortium started a project with similar goal. The project name was "GO-1" (for "Geospatial Object") and was leaded by Polexis, a former USA compagny. * Givin the similarity between GO-1 and GeoAPI goals, we got in touch each other and managed to merge the two projects. * Polexis produces the following specification, which became an official OGC specification. It was based on GeoAPI 2.0, released in same time: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/go * Later, Polexis has been bough by Sys Technology, which seems to have different priorities. Their investment in GeoAPI / GO-1 stopped. * About one year ago, GO-1 / GeoAPI working group at OGC has been disolved du to lack of activity. * GeoTools contributor took over the GeoAPI project. We are for now the main contributor. * We asked to OGC to recreate a new GeoAPI working group. They agree, the only thing missing is to find volunter time. For now there is Geomatys, but we need at least 3 other guys from other compagnies (would you be interrested?) * In the main time, we released GeoAPI milestone as we release GeoTools. GeoAPI 2.1 for GeoTools 2.4, and GeoAPI 2.2 will be for GeoTools 2.5. But only GeoAPI 2.0 is "OGC official". GeoAPI 2.1 and 2.2 should be understood as milestone only. In order to get a new "OGC official" GeoAPI, we need to recreate the above-mentioned GeoAPI working group and get GeoAPI voted at OGC. * GeoAPI 2.2-SNAPSHOT is the most up-to-date version and still in active development (mostly javadoc fixes at this time). The Javadoc page is automatically regenerated every 24 hours. * GeoTools 2.5-SNAPSHOT on trunk is aligned on GeoAPI 2.2-SNAPSHOT. > Second, which version of the GeoAPI should I be using. The GeoTools > 2.5M2 download contains two jars: geoapi-2.2-M2.jar and > geoapi-2.2-SNAPSHOT.jar. Which is more recent (I'm guessing SNAPSHOT)? > Which should I use? The GeoTools 2.4 download uses GeoAPI 2.1. 2.2-SNAPSHOT is more recent. I suggest those, especially since we switched very recently (yesterday actually!) from the legacy JSR-108 to JSR-275 for units management. > How do these jars relate to the release builds offered by the GeoAPI > itself? They are absolutly identical. > (Also, is there a mailing list for the GeoAPI?) Yes. Home page, which charter and stuff like that: http://geoapi.sourceforge.net/ GeoAPI 2.2-SNAPSHOT javadoc (generated every days): http://geoapi.sourceforge.net/snapshot/javadoc/index.html Mailing lists: http://geoapi.sourceforge.net/geoapi/mail-lists.html Issues tracker: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEO Regards, Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
