Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] geotools tweet

[Andrea A. <aa...@op...>]

Michael Bedward wrote:
> Just saw this on twitter (from several days ago)...
> 
> "Using #geotools to simply transform projected coordinates to screen
> coordinates feels like attacking mosquito's with an army of elephants"
> http://twitter.com/miblon/status/9072695715
> 
> Out of interest, do other folk here have similar feelings ?  ie. that
> simple things are sometimes made difficult ?

I agree GeoTools is difficult to use.
For the specific part of reprojection I don't really get what's 
difficult though:

CoordinateReferenceSystem crs1 = CRS.decode("EPSG:XXXX");
CoordinateReferenceSystem crs2 = CRS.decode("EPSG:YYYY");
MathTransform mt = CRS.findMathTransform(crs1, crs2, true);
m.transform(...)

I don't see how it can get any easier. (replace decode with parseWKT
if you need to provide a custom made CRS)

I also agree we'd need more examples

Cheers
Andrea