[Openstreetmap-dev] Re: WGS84/UTM/Lambda... Projection library
Chris Holmes
cholmes at openplans.org
Tue Sep 20 23:10:30 BST 2005
> Hi,
>
> > So I work on geotools, but am definitely not the projection expert. But
> > our projection expert recently extracted out the projection code from the
> > main jar, so it sits in it's own module, for use by people exactly like
> > you. It ends up about a meg in size (though you will need some jar to
> > define the wkt of your projections, this is where my knowledge gets
> > fuzzy). It's on trunk/2.2, and the 2.2M0 that's out now did not include
> > it. If you're interested I can send you the jar directly from the latest
> > svn.
>
> I got the whole trunk from svn and see the projection code somewhat
> seperated in
> gt/module/referencing/src/org/geotools/referencing/operation/projection.
>
> So no need to zip and send it, but thank you for the offer :-)
Cool.
>
>
> I looked at the version. It is still too dependend on the rest of the
> system to take unmodifier, but maybe I extrakt those parts I need write
> a thin layer for the rest and skip the dependency-making stuff like
> internalisation or the whole NamedIdentifier thingabob. ;)
Yeah, our referencing expert really like having everything super spec
compliant. If you give feedback about a layer without so much dependency
then maybe it'll influence hi to make a lighter version, though I wouldn't
hold my breath.
>
> BTW: Where is javax.units.* from? Java Enterprise Edition?
It's a jsr, jsr-108. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsr-108/ Though
unfortunately it's lost momentum. I forget the geotools plans for units,
some other project was maybe going to take over.
>
>
> Well, after all, GeoTools looks like a fine project . Thumbs up to
> you ;)
Cheers, though it's definitely the work of many, many people. Glad you
can extract something useful from it.
Chris
>
>
> Ciao, Imi.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Openstreetmap-dev mailing list
> Openstreetmap-dev at vr.ucl.ac.uk
> http://bat.vr.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstreetmap-dev
>
--
More information about the dev
mailing list