Re: [Geotools-devel] Sniffing for opportunities with Shapefiles and OGC WKT.

2009-09-16 Thread Andrea Aime
Sunburned Surveyor ha scritto: > Geotools Programmers: > > I'm about to embark on a project to overhaul the way OpenJUMP imports > data from simple files. There are really only three (3) types of files > that are critical to include in the update (I'm still debating on if I > want to update GML 2.

Re: [Geotools-devel] Sniffing for opportunities with Shapefiles and OGC WKT.

2009-09-15 Thread Jody Garnett
On 16/09/2009, at 7:40 AM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > Jody, > > Thank you for responding so quickly. I always appreciate your efforts > to answer my questions. Attempted collaboration with Geotools wouldn't > be the same without you. :] I am losing patience with attempted collaboration - when op

Re: [Geotools-devel] Sniffing for opportunities with Shapefiles and OGC WKT.

2009-09-15 Thread Jody Garnett
With respect to adopting the low level code: - quick and dirty; take a the array of object[] out and place them in a jump feature - blood sweat and tears: supply a FeatureFactory that creates jump features to the shapefile code Jody On 16/09/2009, at 6:17 AM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I c

Re: [Geotools-devel] Sniffing for opportunities with Shapefiles and OGC WKT.

2009-09-15 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Jody, Thank you for responding so quickly. I always appreciate your efforts to answer my questions. Attempted collaboration with Geotools wouldn't be the same without you. :] Based on the history that you posted, it sounds like OpenJUMP may have made some shapefile fixes that you guys are missing

Re: [Geotools-devel] Sniffing for opportunities with Shapefiles and OGC WKT.

2009-09-15 Thread Jody Garnett
Some history since the last version OpenJump used: - 3-4 years ago - switched to java io (ie file channels) for increased performance - 2 years ago - Jesse put in code to manages all its side car files with a single set of locks For WKT - we mostly use what is in JTS; there is a fork of that c

[Geotools-devel] Sniffing for opportunities with Shapefiles and OGC WKT.

2009-09-15 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Geotools Programmers: I'm about to embark on a project to overhaul the way OpenJUMP imports data from simple files. There are really only three (3) types of files that are critical to include in the update (I'm still debating on if I want to update GML 2.0 support): - ESRI Shapefiles - OGC WKT -