There were a number of talks directly on GeoTools this year:
GeoServer as always provides an excellent example of GeoTools in action:
A special mention to GeoScript which is building a bridge between GeoTools functionality and a range of scripting languages, with the emphasis on providing a concise and simple API:
Geomajas had a strong showing this year with several presentations plus a hands-on workshop:
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Visualisation was created with gource which installed quite nicely on a mac using "brew install gource". The result is an interactive visualisation you can use to visually explore what developers have been up to.
The second step was to make a movie using "ffmpeg" where I had a bit of install trouble (resolved here).
Here is what that looked like on the command line:
gource -title GeoTools -1280x720 --auto-skip-seconds 1 --background 333333 --font-colour EDEDED --seconds-per-day 0.1 -o geotools.ppm ffmpeg -y -b 10000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i geotools.ppm -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -threads 0 -bf 0 geotools.x264.mp4
LocaleUtils.setLocale(Locale.ITALIAN);String localToolTip = LocaleUtils.getValue("CursorTool", "ZoomInTooltip");org.geotools.swing.locale package and group strings according to component category: e.g. "CursorTool". Adding support for a new language or language variant simply involves adding the appropriate locale to the properties files. LocaleUtils provides support for locales that are only defined for a subset of properties files by allowing the application to specify a list of locales in preference order. For example:LocaleUtils.setLocale( Arrays.asList( firstPrefLocale, secondPrefLocale, fallbackLocale ) );If you are using maven GeoTools 8.0-M1 is available from the OSGeo repository.
This is a milestone build made conjunction with uDig 1.2.2.
There are lots of exciting improvements (see the release notes below for the complete list).
The following change proposals were accepted:
This release makes use of the latest JTS 1.12 and ImageIO-Ext-1.1.0, thanks to Micheal and Daniele for the care and quality assurance required to bring you the latest software.
Thanks to Jody for continuing to update the user guide to reflect the latest changes - highlights include Core Feature (documented for the OSGeoLive DVD) and Filter documentation covering the new temporal support with diagrams and code examples.
A big thank you to Andrea, Jody and Micheal who took a number of trys to safely update the map and layer data structures introduced in 2.6.0. This was the result of careful work involving collaboration, timezones,and amusing KML errors. We kindly ask that downstream projects review this work and make the transition now if they have not already done so.
Jesse Eichar continues to work on support for Teradata that will be appearing in the next release of uDig. Thanks also to Lee for working through the abstract data store tutorial. Jody provided an interesting patch allowing a shapefile to write out features in the same order they were added.
As always we welcome volunteers to the GeoTools project. We have a great team, stop by the geotools-developer list and join the fun.
For more information:
The GeoTools development team would like to thank the contributors that provided patches, the users for their feedback and the companies providing sponsorship to fix bugs.Enjoy,
The GeoTools Community
If you are using maven GeoTools 2.7.2 is available from the OSGeo repository.
This is a bug fix release made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.1.1.
This is primarily a maintenance release focused on improving GeoTools 2.7 and is not devoted to new features. However a few call out to recognise some excellent work:
A long standing glitch in rendering line patterns was resolved; and GeoTools has been updated to work with PostGIS 2.0. Thanks Andrea and GeoSolutions for both of these fixes.
Thanks to Ben for back porting EMF 2.6.1 to the stable branch.
For more information:
The GeoTools development team would like to thank the contributors that provided parches, the users for their feedback and the companies providing sponsorship to fix bugs. Thanks to LISAsoft for sponsoring this maintenance release.
Enjoy,
The GeoTools Community
GeoTools developers are considering aswitch to Java 6 as the minimum requirement starting with GeoTools 8.0: this will give us an improved API to rely on, faster development cycle and a more common development environment setup (finding Java 5 is getting increasingly difficult, especially on some platforms).
The current stable series, 2.7.x, will remain on Java 5, giving people needing to support the old JDK at the very least another six months of live development.
We’d like to hear your opinion on this move. Let us know by voting on the user poll:
http://www.micropoll.com/a/mpview/943467-423595
Thanks for your participation!
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