On Mar 5, 2010, at 6:39 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > David Smiley (@MITRE.org) ha scritto: >> (I forgot to comment when this thread got started) >> >> I definitely agree with the tweeter. The Geotools API is pretty hard to >> use. Take a UTM to Lat/Lon transformation for example. BBN OpenMap has an >> easy API: >> new UTMPoint(4722663,688584,42,'T').toLatLonPoint() >> http://openmap.bbn.com/doc/api/com/bbn/openmap/proj/coords/UTMPoint.html >> It just can't get any easier than that, folks. > > While I agree GeoTools is hard to use, that specific example seems a bit > retarted to me.
It is *very* common, IMO, to deal with UTM and Lat/Lon in particular. > What do I do when I need to convert from two generic projections? > The EPSG database contain 4000 different coordinate reference systems > over tens of different projections. Do they have a class and a method > for every possible combination? I agree that generic projections wouldn't be as simple. > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
