Hello people I have a (common?) practical problem where I have spatial data (with some attributes) on one side (e.g., a shapefile, or a spatial table in a database), and a bunch of related information that's being stored somewhere else (e.g., a regular table in a database that has an FID column matching those in the spatial table).
So I ask: what is the most usual way in GeoTools for "glueing" or linking these two sets of data? At the end, I'd like the user to see everything as a single feature source whose features have many attributes (e.g., those from the shapefile + those from the linked table). I guess that, when everything is within a single database, one can create a view that already joins these data beforehand, and the feature source would then be that view. Or is there a better way of doing this? Anyway, I am not sure if this is really within the scope GeoTools itself, but it looks like a very common problem and so maybe someone has already thought of some mechanisms in GeoToools to help with that.. Thanks for any info! Milton ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
