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<span style="font-size: 14px;">I can recommend you ask on project mailing list (g</span>eotools-gt2-users@lists.sourceforge.net).</div><div>Visit the website for user guide and tutorials.</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Jody Garnett<br></div><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 5:01 PM, Harshal Vora wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I am new to GeoTools. Is there any book or documentation available apart </div><div>from the Java Docs.</div><div><br></div><div>We are working on a product where we would like to store floor plans of </div><div>buildings. We want to use our own coordinate system (in feet or meters). </div><div>Also we want to store a hierarchy of physical locations i.e. building </div><div>contains floors, floors contains rooms etc. We want to provide local </div><div>coordinate systems to each level in the hierarchy and also provide </div><div>capability to convert from one coordinate system to another as we move </div><div>up and down the hierarchy.</div><div><br></div><div>We have not been able to find a suitable solution using PostGis to </div><div>represent hierarchy for Cartesian coordinate systems and hence we feel </div><div>that instead of making modifications on top of PostGis, we would like to </div><div>use GeoTools and do some of the calculations on the application side.</div><div><br></div><div>Does GeoTool provide majority of the functions provided by PostGis i.e. </div><div>contains, within, neighbor, distance, bounding box, intersection etc.?</div><div><br></div><div>Is there any other alternative?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Discuss mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a></div></div></div></span>
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