GeoTools 2.6.3 released

The GeoTools project is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools version 2.6.3.

This release is a bug fix release (27 issues fixed) made in conjunction with uDig 1.2-RC2. A special thank you to to community members that submitted patches this release.

Improvements and new capabilities:

• Improvements to JMapPane thanks to an active user list
• Support for WMS Extent and Dimension information
• Support for the Robinson projection

We also have a few internal improvements:

• Support for Online Test cases using JUnit4

For the complete list please review the 2.6.3 release notes.

GeoTools 2.6.3 is available from source forge:

- http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/

Or from our public maven or subversion repositories:

- http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/

- http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/tags/2.6.3

The GeoTools Community

GeoTools 2.6.2 released

The GeoTools project is pleased to announce the release of GeoTools version 2.6.2.

This release is mostly intended to provide a number of important bug-fixes, but there are also some new features and improvements for your programming pleasure including:

• The rendering system now has the ability to draw polygon fills and SVGs as vectors and draw marks with arbitrary sizes.
• GeoTools applications can now use the H2 database with a spatial index provided by Hatbox.
• Support added for polyconic projections.

Refer to the 2.6.2 release notes for full details.

You can download the complete GeoTools 2.6.2 source distribution from Sourceforge, or click the 'View all files' button on that page for separate downloads for pre-compiled binaries and javadocs. You can also download the source code with your favourite Subversion client from: http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/tags/2.6.2

If you use Maven as your build tool, simply update the version number for GeoTools modules in your pom.xml files to "2.6.2".

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The GeoTools Community

Make your own map-based mashup

IBM produced a nice tutorial making use of GeoTools, JTS and SkateKML with the ever present OpenLayers and PostGIS database.

The tutorial mostly uses the MathTransform services to handle coordinates. You can actually use GeoTools DataStore to perform the SQL query for you resulting in a FeatureCollection. The IBM tutorial performs these steps by hand (Constructing the SQL and translating Well Known Binary into a JTS Geometry etc...).

For more information on using GeoTools FeatureCollection please review QueryLab (java).