Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] sharing

[Raif S. N. <ra...@fo...>]

hello Andrea + Adrian,

thank you both for your prompt (and positive) reply!

Adrian, any idea where to get more information about that Excel Module?  or=
=20
what it's called?

On Thursday 26 October 2006 17:44, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Raif S. Naffah ha scritto:
> > ...have you encountered
> > any constraints/limitations you would like to share?  any specific
> > documentation i should look at/read more closely before starting?
>
> ...probably read the csv file straight without a
> datastore since that would be faster to implement.
>
> Have a look at docs here:
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Features

and, on Thursday 26 October 2006 19:42, Adrian Custer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 17:02 +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> > ...
> > i am looking at using the geotools library to implement a tool that rea=
ds
> > polygon geometry data from a CSV file, and generate a corresponding sha=
pe
> > file.
>
> ...I'd encourage you to think about the
> format you will use in the .csv file so as to solve the more general
> problem. Excel has a simple map making module and therefore there is
> probably a standard way to create the table from which to generate the
> map. If you can find the standard and it seems reasonable, it would be
> worth following that rather than re-inventing our own. I presume the=20
> standard will define how to distinguish points, lines and polygons and
> how to separate the geometry from the attributes.
>
> One of my long term goals is to create such a subsystem for the Gnumeric
> spreadsheet. It would be nice to build on your work,


cheers;
rsn