Geotools2 is an open source/ free java GIS toolkit. It seeks to implement OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed. This wiki is intended as a home for guides, how-tos, tutorials and the developers guide. It allows everyone to collaborate on new ideas and documentation.
If you are new to Geotools2 please read the Developers Guide.
Many of the decisions regarding future directions are disucessed and decided during a weekly IRC session. The logs of recent sessions are available below:
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Recents news:
It's been a big week for GeoTools releases, with both 2.6-RC1 and 2.5.8 hitting the streets.
GeoTools 2.5.8 has seen a number of changes including:
Improvements Shapefile locking
Various fixes to ImageMosaic stability
Support for JDBC aggregate functions
To try out the latest release, head on over to the downloads page .
GeoTools 2.6 has finally reached release candidacy, with the resolution of a few key issues, including:
Solving a crash when reading ECW files
Updated the WCS 1.…
Agenda:
1) cleanup feedback
2) geoapi relationship
3) referencing
4) GeoTools site/blog
5) geotoolkit response
Action items:
GeoTools is alive and kicking; well kicking out 2.5.5 release anyways. The developers have been very busy lately (organizing due to some staff changes).
Catching up with news posts - on May 5th GeoTools 2.5.…
Useful references for GeoTools users
There is now a GeoTools CiteULike library for useful papers, articles and other references relating to geo-spatial applications and computational geometry.
The library is freely accessible to search and browse. Items generally have keywords, abstracts and citation details plus a link to the full text where available. You can comment on an item, for example to point out errors or limitations in an article or to suggest an application.…
Calling all grid coverage users.
Are you someone who:
Needs to create, analyse or manipulate raster data ?
Is often working at the image level with Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) ?
Would like things to be easier ?
If so, then we need you...
GeoTools and JAI
GeoTools provides a number of classes that wrap JAI operators and allow you to do such things as arithmetic operations, resampling and basic convolution without needing write to JAI code yourself.…