Hello Andrea Andrea Aime schrieb am 20.04.2011 21:39: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Andrea Aime > Actually, one more thing. The use case you're talking about, cartographic post > processing over SVG data, is, as far as I know, not covered/used by any of > the current developers. > > It would be nice if you could join the GeoTools team and help out keeping > tabs on this kind of usage, bringing a different perspective into the mix > (for example, my main use case is high performance vector rendering > towards png/jpeg images, so naturally the rendering subsystem is biased > towards it) >
Like many other cartographers I've used (and still use) the GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) framework as a map construnction framework. It is a nice commandline tool but yet becoming somewhat antiquated. So I become acquainted with Geotools and SLD styling to create SVG files - as an input for AI or Inkscape. For me, Geotools with its GIS capabilities has some nice advantages: Geotools supports a wide variety of data formats, can evaluate attributive data e.g. for statistical mapping and I am able to combine map construction with spatial functions (buffer etc.) Of course it requires some Java coding skills to cope with it, cause it lacks somehow of an out-of-the-box kind of toolset. I'll attempt to keep tabs on or promote it a little; like I've started a Wikipedia category for maps created with geotools: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Created_with_GeoTools Regards Alex -- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Alexrk2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
