Stefan Steiniger wrote: > Hei.. did you know that we talked a while ago to the Deegree people on > that subject (Lat/Lon). And they told us, that there is the need for > some rewriting - which they planned to do (at that time - now, they are > probably to busy). That is why we did not start yet to adopt any code of > them. Also DeeJUMP has (had?) coordinate system support, the problem was > that it did not use a native java lib but rather a wrapper. > > so I wouldn't touch the topic right now with respect to deegree. > However, Martin posted on his blog a link to a new FOS software that has > some projection features: > > http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2008/03/tired-of-those-boring-old-conformal-map.html > > Maybe we look rather at this one? But .. an interface for this must be > well thought when starting from scratch, to also allow custom projections > Well.... that post was made really just for bizarreness value, not as a suggestion that this would provide a good projection library!
Here's some more food for thought: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MetaCRS However, what's really needed is a Java CRS library. Two directions would be to use deegrees, or GeoTools. GT's came with some ugly baggage last time I looked, but I think they are stripping it down to make it more pluggable. -- Martin Davis Senior Technical Architect Refractions Research, Inc. (250) 383-3022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
