Re: [Geotools-devel] FeatureSources and coordinate systems: a proposal

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

Andrea Aime wrote:

>Uhm, I've just started to read Jody's DataStore tutorial and noted that there is a DataStore.getFeatureReader
>method in the API... how do we deal with this? It seems that the FeatureReader too needs to have a CS information
>attached otherwise we are providing an API to get Feature without knowing anything about the CS, which is
>bad... (geotools2 is supposed to be a _GIS_, not having CS info is good for CAD people, not for GIS people ;-)
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Yeah! Some is reading the documentation I wrote! (I was starting to doubt)
Of course it would be Andrea who alway catches me out on JAI build 
errors, which are well documented. Thanks Andrea!

I think if we inflict CS info on FeatureType/AttributeType everything 
will work out. All of the FeatureSource stuff is just high level "fluff" 
on top of DataStore - You are correct that we have to deal with CS info 
at the DataStore/FeatureReader level. On the bright side once we have 
done that the high-level API should just fall into place.

Why don't we talk about in the IRC tomorrow?
Or even a bit earlier if you would like to sort things out before IRC. I 
will login to IRC a couple hours early if you want to chat . (I cannot 
remember what time-zone you are in)

Regards,
Jody