Hi Daune;
I tried to mention the class names as I was treating the page as a reference;
it is however a wiki please feel free to rename the page.
The wiki is mostly populated by answering questions on this email list; given
the low participation rate we are starting to move away from that model and
towards source code examples; and probably much less content.
Jody
On 29/06/2010, at 12:13 AM, Duane Zamrok wrote:
> Jody,
>
> As a new user/participant on the list I hate to cause waves, but I notice
> that a lot of the documentation might as well be Greek to me. I mention it
> here because this question seems to be a really good example of what I’m
> talking about. Jean Marie asked a question about determining the distance
> from a point to a line and it is listed in the documentation under “Using
> SpatialIndex and LocationIndexLine to Snap points”. I might be because I’m
> new to the project, but my initial thoughts on this page when I saw it before
> was that it had to do with GUI functionality (snapping frames/panes/windows).
>
> I know a lot of people have put a lot of time into producing the
> documentation that we have, but one of the things I find the most offsetting
> about the entire project is the fact I can drown in documentation without
> ever having an idea what I’m doing wrong.
>
> I apologize in advance for any toes I may have stepped on. I would be willing
> to help with updating the documentation, but I don’t know nearly enough about
> how the library (or GIS) works.
>
> -Duane
>
>
> From: Jody Garnett [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 8:50 PM
> To: Jean Marie
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] closest distance between a point and the
> line
>
> That functionality is provided by JTS (the library we use for geometry).
>
> Since this is a common question we have it covered in the user guide:
> -
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/Using+SpatialIndex+and+LocationIndexLine+to+Snap+points
>
> Jody
>
> On 26/06/2010, at 12:16 AM, Jean Marie wrote:
>
>
> hello
>
> is there an easy way with Geotools to get the closest distance
> between a point and a line (this line being specified by 2 points)
>
> thanks in advance
>
> jean-Marie
>
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