On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Smiley, David W. <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
It is *not* common in real geography (especially in the US) where we tend to use a localised projection and WGS84 lat/lon. None of the projections I (or my students) use is UTM, Ian -- Ian Turton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
