[Geotools-commits] svn - r38288 - trunk/docs/user

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Author: jive
Date: 2011-10-30 07:03:10 -0700 (Sun, 30 Oct 2011)
New Revision: 38288

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+GeoTools
+========
+
+GeoTools is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for
+the manipulation of geospatial data, for example to implement Geographic Information Systems.
+The GeoTools library data structures are based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications.
+
+.. image:: /images/geotools.png
+
+GeoTools is used by a number of projects including web services, command line tools and desktop
+applications.
+
+Core Features
+-------------
+
+* Definition of interfaces for key spatial concepts and data structures
+  
+  * Integrated Geometry support provided by Java Topology Suite (JTS)
+  * Attribute and spatial filters using OGC Filter Encoding specification
+  
+* A clean data access API supporting feature access, transaction support and locking between threads
+  
+  * Access GIS data in many file formats and spatial databases
+  * Coordinate reference system and transformation support
+  * Work with an extensive range of map projections
+  * filter and analyze data in terms of spatial and non-spatial attributes
+
+* A stateless, low memory renderer, particularly useful in server-side environments.
+  
+  * compose and display maps with complex styling
+
+* Powerful *schema asisted* parsing technology using XML Schema to bind to GML content
+  
+  The parsing / encoding technology is provided with bindings for many OGC standards
+  including GML, Filter, KML, SLD, and SE.
+  
+* GeoTools Plugins: open plug-in system allowing you to teach the library additional formats
+  
+  * Plug-ins for the ImageIO-EXT project allowing GeoTools to read additional raster formats from GDAL
+ 
+* GeoTools Extensions
+
+  Provide additional capabilities built using the spatial facilites of the core library.
+
+  .. image:: /images/extension.png
+  
+  Extensions provide graph and networking support (for finding the shortest path), validation,
+  a web map server client, bindings for xml parsing and encoding and color brewer!
+
+* GeoTools Unsupported
+  
+  GeoTools also operates as part of a wider community with a staging area used to foster new
+  talent and promote experimentation.
+  
+  Some highlights are swing support (used in our tutorials!), swt, local and web process support,
+  additional symbology, additional data formats, generation of grids and a couple of implementations
+  of ISO Geometry.
+
+Supported Formats
+-----------------  
+
+* raster formats and data access
+  
+  arcsde, arcgrid, geotiff, grassraster, gtopo30, image (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG), imageio-ext-gdal, 
+  imagemoasaic, imagepyramid, JP2K, matlab
+  
+* Database "jdbc-ng" support
+  
+  db2, h2, mysql, oracle, postgis, spatialite, sqlserver
+
+* Vector formats and data access
+  
+  app-schema, arcsde, csv, dxf, edigeo, excel, geojson, org, property, shapefile, wfs
+
+* XML Bindings
+
+  Java data structures and bindings provided for the following:
+  xsd-core (xml simple types), fes, filter, gml2, gml3, kml, ows, sld, wcs, wfs, wms, wps, vpf.
+  
+  Additional Geometry, Filter and Style parser/encoders available for DOM and SAX applications.
+  
+Implemented Standards
+---------------------
+
+Support of numerous Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards:
+
+* OGC Style Layer Descriptor / Symbology Encoding data structures and rendering engine
+* OGC General Feature Model including Simple Feature support
+* OGC Grid Coverage representation of raster information
+* OGC Filter and Common Constraint Language (CQL)
+* Clients for Web Feature Service, Web Map Service and experimental support for Web Process Service
+* ISO 19107 Geometry