Some starter links on WKT2:

https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc73_proj6_wkt2_srsbarn.html
https://docs.ogc.org/is/12-063r5/12-063r5.html
https://proj4.org/en/9.4/development/reference/cpp/cpp_general.html#standards

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 2:34 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You are the first to express interest in this, what can you tell me about
> WKT2? This is the first I have personally heard of it...
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Jun 19, 2024 at 8:08:32 AM, Alexander Janzen - con terra GmbH via
> GeoTools-GT2-Users <geotools-gt2-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We have been using GeoTools for many years and expect to get soon a
>> requirement from the user side to support WKT2 strings.
>> In my research for the current state of the WKT2 support in GeoTools I
>> tried to parse an example WTK2 string like this:
>>
>> import org.geotools.referencing.CRS;
>> // ...
>> // please note the additional "R" as an indicator for WKT2 below
>> String wkt = "PROJCRS[...";
>> CRS.parseWKT(wkt);
>>
>> I got the following error: Type "PROJCRS" is unknow in this context.
>>
>> Afterwards I looked in the source code and found out, that
>> Parser.CoordinateReferenceSystem() supports the following root nodes:
>> PROJCS, GEOGCS, GEOCCS, VERT_CS, LOCAL_CS, COMPD_CS, FITTED_CS.
>> Since any WKT2 root node is missing I assume that WKT2 support is not
>> implemented yet.
>> Then I looked in the Jira board, StackOverflow, developer and user
>> mailing list on that topic, but couldn't find any hints that WKT2 support
>> is planed for the future releases.
>> Since I could not find a roadmap for GeoTools too I was wondering if it
>> is considered to support it in the future.
>>
>> best regards,
>> Alexander
>>
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