[MetaCRS] Anyone developing CSMap for NET?

[STEPHEN STANTON]

Thanks André, I had a look at the MapGuide classes, but decided there's just too much baggage - it would take me a month to get up to speed, and make any installation a bit unwieldy.

So I'm looking once more at using CSMap itself. Having actually looked at the user manual, I now see how to iterate over coordinate systems, datums, and ellipsoids. I was hoping that access to information on categories would follow the same pattern, but it looks like they're handled differently. Is there any documentation out there, or example code that shows how categories might be used as part of a coordinate system browser?

Steve

P.S. Is there a CSMap developers list that I should perhaps be posting to?


--- On Mon, 10/1/11, Andre Barth <Andre.Barth at autodesk.com> wrote:

> From: Andre Barth <Andre.Barth at autodesk.com>
> Subject: RE: [MetaCRS] Anyone developing CSMap for NET?
> To: "STEPHEN STANTON" <sstanton at btinternet.com>, "metacrs at lists.osgeo.org" <metacrs at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Monday, 10 January, 2011, 7:11
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> You could use the MapGuide managed API to (indirectly)
> access the CsMap API - not all of CsMap's capabilities are
> exposed, though.
> 
> Take a look at http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/trunk/MgDev/Common/Geometry/CoordinateSystem/
> - this is the API your managed app can be implemented
> against.
> 
> CsMap virtually has no dependencies on other 3rd party libs
> whereas MapGuide has. Don't know, whether this would be a
> problem for you.
> 
> André
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacrs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:metacrs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
> On Behalf Of STEPHEN STANTON
> Sent: Sonntag, 9. Januar 2011 00:29
> To: metacrs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [MetaCRS] Anyone developing CSMap for NET?
> 
> I've been looking to see if I can use CSMap as part of my
> C# application, since the codebase is full of loads of good
> stuff. I thought of trying out SWIG to generate some C#
> bindings, but I get the impression the results would be a
> bit messy.
> 
> Meanwhile, if I look at Proj.Net on codeplex, I see
> something that looks relatively intuitive (perhaps that's
> due to GeoAPI.NET). But the number of map projections
> supported by Proj.Net isn't that extensive, and it seems
> no-one has been committing for ages.
> 
> Is anybody working on code to make the CSMap code more
> accessible? If not, what needs to be done to make it happen,
> and can I help?
> 
> Steve