Re: [Geotools-devel] GeoTools user rant

2006-10-17 Thread Jody Garnett
Sigh - teach me to try and sneak email in between two many activities :-( Sorry David / Adrian. Jody > > > Jody Garnett wrote: >> Hi David, nice rant ... fixing this situation (even with a basic user >> intro that covers the most commonly useful 30% of the library is that >> I want to see >> tac

Re: [Geotools-devel] GeoTools user rant

2006-10-17 Thread Chris Holmes
Jody Garnett wrote: Hi David, nice rant ... fixing this situation (even with a basic user intro that covers the most commonly useful 30% of the library is that I want to see tackled before we graduate the OSGeo incubation process. For now: - David Adler is working on something (he had a whol

Re: [Geotools-devel] GeoTools user rant

2006-10-17 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Again: I have updated the use page to mention that presentation: - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Use The situation is not likely to improve right now, our existing sponsors are much more concerned about quality then a user community, if you can think of another angle to pursue th

Re: [Geotools-devel] GeoTools user rant

2006-10-17 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi David, nice rant ... fixing this situation (even with a basic user intro that covers the most commonly useful 30% of the library is that I want to see tackled before we graduate the OSGeo incubation process. For now: - David Adler is working on something (he had a whole wack of questions and

[Geotools-devel] GeoTools user rant

2006-10-17 Thread David Adler
It isn't clear what the target user audience is for GeoTools. For the 2.0/2.1 era of GeoTools, there is a considerable set of examples and snippets and other documentation to help in building GeoTools applications. We modified the Spearfish demo to work with DB2. Many of these are no longer v