[OSGeo-Discuss] Java Collaboration...Again

[Landon Blake]

Frank,

I will join the MetaCRS mailing list as you suggest.

You wrote: "If the Java folks don't feel that a shared CRS component
belong properly in GeoTools..."

I don't think most of us will have a problem with the library being
hosted by GeoTools. It seems like the logical choice. I can visit with
Jody about this some more of things materialize.

Thank you for the suggestions.

Landon

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 11:16 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Cc: Martin Desruisseaux
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Java Collaboration...Again

Landon Blake wrote:
> The Java collaboration has reared its ugly head again...
> 
>  
> 
> Some programmers from GeoTools, OpenJUMP, degree, and Open Plans are 
> talking about the possibility (probably remote) of a shared library
for 
> SRS or CRS definitions and transformations. The idea wouldn't be to 
> scrap existing libraries found in GeoTools and deegree, or in other 
> projects, but to come up with a plan for eventually merging parts of 
> these libraries into a single low-level library that could be shared 
> among all.
> 
> I'm going to make a modest effort to keep everyone talking and to move

> this forward. I posted a link on the Java GIS Collaboration page of
the 
> OSGeo wiki to this page for discussion of the library:
> 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Shared_CRS_and_CRS_Transformation_Library
> 
> I thought I would post here so no Java GIS programmers are left out of

> the discussion if they want to participate.

Landon,

I'm sure there will be some challenges in this effort. :-)

I would also like to bring to your attention the MetaCRS project, an
effort to confederate some other existing coordinate system related
projects
(particularly Proj4JS, CS-MAP and PROJ.4) and to work towards some
shared
test data and coordinate system dictionaries.

   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MetaCRS

I would love to see a few Java folks join the mailing list.  If nothing
else, I would love to see some cooperation on shared test datasets, and
coordinate system dictionaries with the Java world.  If the Java folks
don't feel that a shared CRS component belong properly in GeoTools, or
one of the other cooperating projects, then it could also in theory
be handled as part of MetaCRS, though I'm not pushing this idea too
hard.

Best regards,
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