Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Projection management on GeoTools

[Sylvain G. <s.g...@oi...>]

Ok thanks for the explanation and the work done so far.

Sylvain

Martin Desruisseaux a écrit :
> Hello Sylvain
>
> Sylvain GRELLET a écrit :
>> One last question, do you know when the last port of Proj.4 C/C++ 
>> code to Java occured ?
>
> Hard to give a clear answer on this one since it is spread over 
> time... We do not have a complete port of the full Proj.4 library. We 
> usually port parts of it on a projection-by-projection basis (usually 
> from volunter work) as the need appear. The last projection ported 
> that way was Cassini in 2008.
>
>
>> Working in France, maybe you know Martin, that IGN France recently 
>> contributed to Proj.4 in order to update projection & transformations 
>> related to RGF93/Lambert93 (it's in proj.4 version 4-6-1).
>> It's in this context that I plan to use GeoTools 2.5 via SDI.
>> Using RGF93/Lambert93 when publishing datasets will be a legal 
>> obligation in France starting on Monday March 9th.
>>
>> In the mean time I have contacted the person in charge of RGF93/L93 
>> project at IGN France in order to know whether they had validated 
>> GeoTools for this use or no. We'll see what his answer would be.
>
> We are in contact with IGN as well and they gave us material to help 
> us implementing the RGF93 projection. We are planning to implement it. 
> My schedule is to get EPSG factory to work on geotidy (I mostly 
> finished to port and clean the GeoTools 2.x code. I'm now porting the 
> tests and testing), test the integration of that code in geotools and 
> after that I will implement RGF93.
>
>
>     Martin
>
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