As you can see new developers is exactly what projects need to keep healthy.<div><br></div><div>The join proposal is here:</div><div>- <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Join+Support">http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Join+Support</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Your feedback would be welcome.\</div><div><br></div><div>Jody</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span>We have just been looking at a proposal for a Join interface (an extension to our Query) interface in GeoTools. If you would like to drop by geotools-devel you will find this to be a topical subject.</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The functionality of a join is part of the Web Feature Server 2.0 specification so you should find a lot of projects running into it as a concept over the next year.<br>
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<span><br>-- <br>Jody Garnett<br><br></span><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<p style="color:#a0a0a0">On Thursday, 30 June 2011 at 8:25 AM, Steve Stanton wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><div><font face="arial" size="2">I'm looking for a project that I could contribute to as a C# (maybe Java) developer.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2">In particular, I'm looking for something that focuses on ways to perform flexible </font><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">spatial joins with some degree of efficiency. The simplest case I'm thinking of is </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">where someone picks 2 or more database tables (associated with location), and asks </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">to see a combined table. No maps involved, just tables (with the
overlapping ground </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">area thrown in if we're dealing with a polygon/polygon overlay).</span></div><div><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2">A more complex case would be a situation where someone wants to isolate an area based </font><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">on the attributes in database tables, but doesn't have any advance idea of where to </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">start looking. For example, I'm looking for a combination of A+B+C that covers at least </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">1000 hectares, but I'm starting with a database that covers the whole world. So to obtain </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">some measure of efficiency, it would presumably be nice to have access to related</span></div>
<div><font face="arial" size="2">generalizations of the location data.</font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2">Is anyone working on this sort of thing?</font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">
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