[JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-19 Thread Larry Becker
This post is continuing the debate/discussion about adding OJ projection support, and other interesting things that GDAL provides. I've noticed that *Even Rouault *has been giving the GDAL Java bindings quite a workout lately. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/swig/java/apps/ Does

Re: [JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-19 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Larry, I don't know much about GDAL, but I'm thinking it will be a lot easier to add deegree or GeoTidy/GeoTools CRS support to OJ. SS On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Larry Becker becker.la...@gmail.com wrote: This post is continuing the debate/discussion about adding OJ projection support,

Re: [JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-19 Thread Larry Becker
GDAL/OGR does much more than reprojection. For instance, using the ogr2ogr utility, which is written in just a few pages of code, you can create shapefiles from an ESRI personal geodatabase while reprojecting the result with a single command. It also supports practically every raster format.

Re: [JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-19 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Thanks for clarifying Larry. SS On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Larry Becker becker.la...@gmail.com wrote: GDAL/OGR does much more than reprojection. For instance, using the ogr2ogr utility, which is written in just a few pages of code, you can create shapefiles from an ESRI personal

Re: [JPP-Devel] Increased GDAL Java activity

2009-02-19 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei, without looking on the page/posts it is interesting - but I guess it will be a binding to a C lib. So I would say it is rather an idea for an external plugin and not for an integration due to the platform issue (Win, Linux, MaxOSX). However, could be that my comment was unqualified - as I