Hey Martin...Thanks for the update. I will be at the OGC meeting in DC as well. ApacheCon for me is still questionable but I would love to attend.
Adam On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all > > The sis-referencing module API is almost complete for SIS 0.4. One can see > for example an initial set of Coordinate Reference System (CRS) definitions > at [1]. This is tiny subset of EPSG database, but I plan to handle them in a > special way in that those CRS should be always available in any SIS > installation even if the EPSG database is down. > > The last tasks that I see before the release candidate are: > > * Complete the above-cited definitions with three-dimensional > Geographic CRS (EPSG:4979) and a Geocentric CRS (needed for some > Well Known Text (WKT) support). The classes are there, so it is only > about predefining some instances. > * Migrate WKT formatting to the new WKT 2 format (ISO 19162). The old > WKT 1 format would still be available as an option. > * Shapefile datastore. > > > Tasks deferred to SIS 0.5 are: > > * Parsing of WKT 1 & 2 > * Projected CRS and map projections > * EPSG database > > > We have an OGC meeting in the Washington D.C. area on March 24 to 28. My > goal is to have WKT 2 parsing and formatting fully supported before the > meeting. This would hopefully allow us to bring some material to the > Standard Working Group (SWG) which will be discussing ISO 19162. > > Soon after the OGC meeting, there is the ApacheCon North America 2014 event > [3]. I would really like to make a presentation there about OGC + SIS, but I > do not know what those ApacheCon usually looks like. Does anyone have > experience that they would like to share? > > Thanks in advance for any feedbacks! > > Martin > > > [1] > https://builds.apache.org/job/sis-jdk7/site/apidocs/org/apache/sis/referencing/CRS.html#forCode%28java.lang.String%29 > [2] http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1403tc > [3] > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp >
