RnD

Design discussions & current activity in the geotools2 community

2.1	%Grid Coverage Update%	Move from OpenGIS to ISO 19111
2.1	%Grid Coverage Data Access%	exciting development happening in conjunction with GeoAPI
2.1	%Public Domain GeoTIFF plugin%	A GridCoverageReader plugin for GeoTIFF files
2.2	Community Schema Support and Complex Types Project page Complex schemas - Business driver examples FeatureType survey	Support for interoperable schemas, with complex properties

Developer scratch pad for new and wonderful ideas.

Observation	%Critical Errors in OGC's GML 3.1.0%	Notes on XML Schema and why GML 3.1.0 is unimplementable
Proposal	%Coverage Support Plans%	Plans for coverage support, concocted by those who need it.
Proposal	%Multidimensional Georegistered Grid%	API for selecting a 2D slice from nD data.
Proposal	%J2SE ImageIO in 2D%	A plan for isolating grid plugins from OGC/GeoAPI/Geotools instability
Proposal	%Bring Back FeatureCollection%	Data API issues, backwards compatability and future directions
Proposal	%Rendering Optimization%	more data rendered faster
Proposal	%Random Data Access%	ease the pain of filter construction and common optimizations
Proposal	%Shapefile Index Support%	look into use of index files for shapefile, related to Random Data Access
Idea	%GUI Architecture%
Idea	%Dynamic Styling%
2.1	%Operations API%	JAI for Features
2.1	Repository	Support for cross datastore opperations
Idea	Meta Information Infrastructure
Proposal	FeatureTypes for GML	Expanding our Feature model to deal with the full complexity of GML
Idea	World Dataset Projection	Correctly project and draw world datasets
Idea	Map, Layer, Data and Rendering Architecture	Build a unified map, map layer, data access and (general) rendering concept based on existing concepts in GeoTools, GeoAPI and uDig.