[Legal-general] GPX Library For Java Complete

[Joseph Gentle]

Great stuff. I'll start investing some time into helping out at the
end of feb once a job I'm doing at the moment is over.

-J


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Sunburned Surveyor
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to let you guys know that I have completed an open
> source software library written in Java that allows client code to
> easily parse and manipulate GPX files. I've also grafted this
> functionality into OpenJUMP. This means OpenJUMP can now read GPX
> files and export the data in the files to numerous GIS file formats
> like Shapefile and WKT. The library currently supports both Waypoint
> and Track entities.
>
> I hope to do additional work on the library over the coming months.
>
> I am going to announce the existence of the library on the GPX mailing
> list soon. I'm not subscribed to the JOSM mailing list, but if someone
> wants to forward this message there, I would appreciate it.
>
> You can download the library from this page:
>
> http://www.redefinedhorizons.com/resources.html
>
> The source code is availalbe for download and viewing from the
> SurveyOS Project SourceForge SVN:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=122820
> http://surveyos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/surveyos/
>
> It is released under the LGPL license as part of the GeoTools Project.
> I hope to have it packages as part of the official GeoTools build in
> the next couple of months.
>
> My next project: Write a similar open source library for the reading
> and writing of OSM files and integrate this functionality into
> OpenJUMP.
>
> I welcome other programmer contributions to the GPX library.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Landon
>
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