[Java-collab] Some Thoughts

[Sunburned Surveyor]

This list has been pretty quiet since its inception. I wanted to send
a brief update:

- I cleaned up the OSGeo wiki page found here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Java_GIS_Collaboration
- JTIN (a Java library for working with TIN data) is currently found
at the JUMP Pilot Project SVN. We got funded for another summer of
work on the library (via Google’s Summer of Code) and hope to
integrate it as part of degree 2.
- I’ve got a library for parsing GPX data that is available under the
LGPL and is currently an unsupported module in Geotools. This code
supports the basics of reading GPX files, but there is a lot of room
for improvement.
- My Google Summer of Code student recently pointed out the Kabeja
library that can be used for reading DXF files. I’ve been in contact
with the developer, who seems to be a friendly guy. This seems like a
good library to support the DXF format in Java GIS applications. Right
now it appears to read the whole document into RAM, like DOM, but this
could be fixed. I thought I would share the information about the
library with other programmers on this list:
http://kabeja.sourceforge.net/
- I will need to do write some code this summer on a route addressing
library for a project at my day job. I would like to make this an
unsupported module in Geotools as well. Let me know if you are
interested in working together on this.

Landon