-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/23/10 17:48 , Juan Marín Otero wrote: > Fabrizio, > > I have zero experience in the Android platform, so not very > helpful there. I do have over a decade of experience with GIS > though, and when you say "ESRI format" it could mean a number of > things, I assume you are talking about the Shapefile format [1]
... so you got that I have a little experience in the Android platform, but zero experience with ESRI ;-) What I've seen is an archive of files with .shp, .shx and .dbf extensions: % file * anou_minu_pl.dbf: DBase 3 data file (2 records) anou_minu_pl.shp: ESRI Shapefile version 1000 length 18406 type Polygon anou_minu_pl.shx: ESRI Shapefile version 1000 length 58 type Polygon anou_minu_pt.dbf: DBase 3 data file (13 records) anou_minu_pt.shp: ESRI Shapefile version 1000 length 232 type Point anou_minu_pt.shx: ESRI Shapefile version 1000 length 102 type Point so, yes, it sounds as ESRI shapefiles. I suppose the DBase 3 files are there for other reasons. > > Android is often referred to as a "subset" of Java, whatever that > means (again, excuse my ignorance on this). In Java environments > there are many options to render a shapefile into an image, a good > open source library is geotools [2]. I have the gut feeling that > it will have a lot of Java 2D required packages that might not be > part of Android from what I have heard. Thanks for the pointer. Yes, it won't work directly on Android because there's no Java2D, but at least is a starting point (I've downloaded the files yesterday, and I haven't yet found an application for Mac OS X to open them). PS I know I know, I always repeat the same things such as Rainman ;-) but I can't prevent myself from this point: I've zero knowledge of GIS and ESRI, but I know they are pretty useful things and technologies. I find it shameful that in order to have them on Android (I see lots of possible use cases for having a GIS on a smartphone) you have to do lots of work, and can't use Java stuff that is already there, working, tested and with its own communities. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxJxlYACgkQeDweFqgUGxcRJwCfWSkGGtKbJI6/HUZJm5p62nRd ee4Amwar89Et1U5w/UcsNbNEcj7hF5U8 =+Vis -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
