Rob Atkinson wrote: > (warning - rhetorical question) Why do we want a SimpleFeature at all?
In my view, simple feature types exist to support the easy construction of types from unstructured data such as database views and shapefiles. They allow, at runtime, decisions such as: can this type be edited at runtime in our primitive GUI type editor? It is my opinion that these questions are best answered from data, and not coded using the Java type system. I think that both GeoAPI and the implementation could do with simplification (no pun intended), and getting rid of simple features would be a good start. -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining Australian Resources Research Centre 26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
