Pieter,

I agree with Jody.

I'm seeing increasing demand for clients that can utilise vector data 
constrained by an application schema.

Europe is probably most advanced in this work with Inspire.

In Australia we have a lot of work currently at research and at implementation 
stage trying to work with Simple Features 1 (aka Complex Features).

Some examples are WaterML 2.0 and GeoSciML. We will also be looking seriously 
at CSML 3.0.

Bruce Bannerman


On 13/07/11 10:52 PM, "Jody Garnett" <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:


 It is the ISO 19107 specification; the same one that lurks behind GML Ready to 
leap out from under a surface and foist trans finite set on an unsuspecting 
world.  It is worth while getting the ISO 19107 document (ie pay for it) as it 
is much easier to read and follow then learning this information second hand.

We had a brief code sprint with deegree (compatible LGPL license) in order to 
see if multiple project would be interested in attacking the problem. GeoAPI 
was the first attempt (which has now been released last month), we have a 
couple of implementations in GeoTools (mostly ports or wrappers of JTS). 
deegree has an implementation that is closer to the GML constructs etc....

If you are interested in pursuing this I recommend talking to Tisham who has 
been more active research. I am afraid I am interested in using a Geometry 
library and enthusiasm goes as far as setting one up with a good design so that 
it can be completed successfully.

--
Jody Garnett



On Wednesday, 13 July 2011 at 9:54 PM, Pieter De Graef wrote:


Hi Jody,

that's the GeoApi specification no?

At first we would be using it on the GWT client we where hoping to also include 
curves, as those can be directly drawn in SVG/VML. At a later stage we could 
switch the backend to make use of it as well.

Jody, you have been looking into creating you own Geometry library for some 
time now I understand. How would you approach this? I was hoping to start with 
something simple, that can grow at it's own pace. Important for me is that I 
can use the same objects on both client and server (meaning Java with some GWT 
restrictions).

I am also afraid to be re-inventing the wheel, but using 2 different libraries 
on client and server would be a shame when using GWT...


2011/7/13 Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>

 There is a third model; the ISO19107 model that deals with a few more things; 
it is however object oriented in nature....

--
Jody Garnett



On Wednesday, 13 July 2011 at 6:36 PM, Pieter De Graef wrote:


Hi everyone,

for the Geomajas project, we are looking into separating the Geometry 
functionality into an independent project. In other words, I am talking about a 
Geometry project for the Web. This code would be written in Java for GWT and 
thus be available on Java backends as well as client environments (we intend to 
add a JavaScript wrapper around the GWT code).

Now the problem that I'm facing here, is which model to follow....

On one hand there is the Simple Feature Specification which is clearly an 
Object Oriented model with the advantage that it is well known but is also more 
difficult to implement the JavaScript wrapper around.

On the other hand we could follow a service based model (more like SFS for SQL) 
which is easier to get up and running, easier to create a JavaScript wrapper 
for and easier to translate into web services.

As it's difficult for us to chose and as it's a pretty crucial decision for the 
future of the Geomajas project, I as wondering how you guys feel about this.

Kind regards,

Pieter De Graef
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