GeoTools

Monday, January 20, 2014

The GeoTools community is happy to bring you the latest GeoTools 10.4 download:

This release is available from our Maven repository for use with your build system.

Only a few fixes this month:

This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.4.4.

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
Support for fills made with randomized symbols

The 10.x series features a number of research and development activities:

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

If you are interested in helping out please introduce yourself on geotools-devel mailing list.

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