Re: [JPP-Devel] [Geotools-devel] Requesting some thoughts on GeoTools...

2007-04-23 Thread Nacho Uve
Hello all, I've programmed using both GeoTools and JUMP-OpenJUMP APIs. I think it's a great idea to make a converter between OpenJUMP and GeoTools feature model, in fact, it had been very useful to me a few months ago... and sure it will be very useful in the future. But, in my opinion,

Re: [JPP-Devel] [Geotools-devel] Requesting some thoughts on GeoTools...

2007-04-20 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Justin, Your comments will be very helpful to me. I think it would be prudent to stick with the stable version of GeoTools for my work on a converter between OpenJUMP and GeoTools feature. The Sunburned Surveyor On 4/20/07, Justin Deoliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Edgar, PS: aren't

Re: [JPP-Devel] [Geotools-devel] Requesting some thoughts on GeoTools...

2007-04-19 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for the email Frank - your comments are spot on. It often seems are run out of time and push something bad out the door - and then spend years sorting out what is right. I kind of wish we would do more gradual changes and set ourselves up to improve over time. It often seems we struggle

Re: [JPP-Devel] [Geotools-devel] Requesting some thoughts on GeoTools...

2007-04-19 Thread Edgar Soldin
Hello Frank, Jody, Landon and all ... this is exactly what my problem was back in 2004! .. imagine an impressible powerful graphic user interface for editing (jump) but not using the all the power of geotools ... still things were/are not that different, for my thesis i wrote a (simple)

Re: [JPP-Devel] [Geotools-devel] Requesting some thoughts on GeoTools...

2007-04-19 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Edgar wrote: wonder why Vivid Solutions .. and other contributors too (since 2004! when i got involved into osgis) are not using the readily available power of geotools2 to implement useful features like reprojection or geotools datasource modules ... why is that so? I think the reason for

Re: [JPP-Devel] [Geotools-devel] Requesting some thoughts on GeoTools...

2007-04-19 Thread Martin Davis
Well, perhaps you're right, Frank. These days a few meg one way or the other doesn't make much difference. At least GDAL has a nice stable API, which encourages people to commit to depending on it. Certainly the idea of having One core API to rule them all is appealing. Perhaps someone will