GeoTools 10.1 Released

The GeoTools community is happy to bring you the latest GeoTools 10.1 download:

• geotools-10.1-bin.zip
• geotools-10.1-doc.zip
• geotools-10.1-userguide.zip
• geotools-10.1-project.zip

As an alternative to downloading this release has been deployed to our Maven repository.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.4.1 and GeoWebCache 1.5.0.

Please see the GeoTools 10.1 Release Notes for additional details.

About GeoTools 10.x Series

Summary of the new features for the GeoTools 10.x series:

• Structured grid coverage readers allow raster data sources that publish composite data products to expose individual rasters (ie granules) for processing, while still providing a seamless experience for rendering. The mosaic and NetCDF modules are the first ones to implement these new interfaces.
• Efficient support for multiple coverages in GridCoverageReader provides ad-hoc access to raster formats that publish more that one data product. A image mosaic made of NetCDF granules and single file NetCDF sources are the first implementors of these new capabilities
• A new implementation of Shapefile DataStore (based on ContentDataStore superclass). This upgrade should be seamless for all users using DataStoreFactoryFinder. If you explicitly made use of the ShapefileDataStore or IndexedShapefileDataStore class please check the upgrade instructions.
• The transform module graduated to supported status, providing a seamless way to rename, retype and hide SimpleFeatureSource attributes, as well as creating new ones based on OGC Expression
• Additional OGC modules for the WCS 2.0 and WCS 2.0 EO models as well as adding XML parsers and encoders

The 10.x series has a number of research and development activities that may be of interest:

• NetCDF has been updated to take advantage of the new coverage API introduced above
• GeoPackage: a sample implementation of the geopackage spec that is currently being developed by the OGC

While exciting, this functionally is looking for volunteers and/or funding to meet our quality assurance standards. If you are interested please introduce yourself on geotools-devel (or check out options for commercial support).

Enjoy,
The GeoTools Community
http://geotools.org

Randomized Fill

Quick cool new feature thanks to the always impressive @geowolf. Andrea is a man of few words and many examples so let me turn you over to his email.

Hi, 

The randomized fill support discussed some time ago has landed on trunk. 

Cheers 

Andrea 

PS: A note about the params and their default value:

• random: false

• random-seed: 0 (the seed for the random generator, change its value to get a different distribution at the same density)

• random-symbol-count: 16

• random-tile-size: 256 (the size of the tile... this default is large for small symbols... but ok for larger pictures...)

• random-space-around: 0 (conflict resolution control, similar to labels, < 0 allows for overlap, > 0 pushes symbols further apart)

• random-rotation: false (whether to randomly rotate the symbols as well, or not)

• random-grid: true (if true the symbols are randomized around the centers of a regular grid, when false it's really fully random)

PPS: I'd wish to port it back to the stable series next month if nothing breaks

Thanks to New South Wales Geological Survey for sponsoring this work.

(Check out the original email for the XML code examples, click on the images for larger size).

Randomized Slash Symbols

Here is one with randomized "slash" symbols, with a background box fill that helps visualize the "unit" of the random fill, the image that is getting repeated over and over:
In this case the randomization is grid based, that is, symbols are not actually
spread out fully randomly, each of them is actually placed at a controlled random 
distance from the centers of an invisible grid. Random, but not completely so.

Fully Random without Rotation

Here is one fully random, and without random rotation. As you can see, there are some holes
in the pattern that the gridded version did not have.

Fully Random

Here is a fully random one, actually, two, superimposed (see how the seed got changed to avoid getting
the same point distribution twice in a row, which would have made the larger circles just cover the small ones).

Theme Example

As a closing example, the usual topp:states depicted using varying dot density: