[DotNet-OSGeo] File Input/Output Libraries for Cartographic Labeling

[Landon Blake]

I forgot the link to the source code:

http://surveyos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/surveyos/vb/GeoSpatial_Annotations/trunk/src/

Don't giggle about my Dot Net skills. :]

Landon

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Landon Blake
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently started an open source project in Visual Basic .Net to
> create a library and toolkit for the efficient generation of
> cartographic labels. Here is the basic concept embodied in the
> project:
>
> 1) Supply geospatial data files, styles, and rules (for things like
> label collision detection) to a geospatial factory.
> 2) Obtain annotations from the factory in common graphic open file
> formats like SVG, DXF, or PostScript.
>
> I have some code in the embryonic stage online:
>
>
> As part of the Geospatial Annotations library and toolkit I will need
> to find (or code myself) the following capabilities:
>
> 1) Simple Geometry Representations and Operations
> 2) DXF File Input/Output
> 3) SVG File Output
> 4) ESRI Shapefile Input
> 5) GeoJSON Input
> 6) Postscript Input
>
> Before I spent the time to code my own capabilities, I wanted to
> bounce an e-mail of this mailing list. What are the existing
> capabilities in the open source .Net GIS world? I investigated both
> SharpMap and the Net Topology Suite, but it wasn't quite clear to me
> as an outsider what the relationship was between the two (2) projects.
>
> If the community currently lacks some of the capabilities I listed
> above, and I developed solutions for them, where would be the best
> place to collaboratively host and maintain the code?
>
> I'm definitely out of my comfort zone in the .Net world, and I
> appreciate the help and suggestions.
>
> Landon