Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Should I use a Polygon or a Mark?

[Michael B. <mic...@gm...>]

Yep, that was a pretty good speech :-)  And I wouldn't quibble with
any of it - I think you're quite right that the library needs to
become more developer friendly.

At the moment Jody and I (mostly Jody) are working through the
tutorial exercises in the Welcome section of the User Guide and
bringing them up to date, adding more comments etc. All of the classes
for these can be found in demo/example (the work is happening on trunk
in svn).

One of the things that is being revised at the moment is example code
for styling and rendering features. For your own questions, have a
look at the method createPointStyle() in:

http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/trunk/demo/example/src/main/java/org/geotools/demo/ShapeLab.java

For the FOSS4G conference here in Sydney next month we (again, mostly
Jody) are putting together some tutorial material to support the
example code in this sort of format...

http://geotools.org/quickstart.html

So, hopefully this will make it a lot easier for people like you (and
me :) to get started on parts of the library that can otherwise be
very confusing or intimidating.

Michael

2009/9/8 jv <cib...@gm...>:
> No need to apologize Michael, I understand it's not possible to keep it up
> to date. But I seriously think it should be some sample projects already
> configured to work in a cookbook style... I've already figured out how to
> create from the scratch a map with a layer and a few polygons on it but it
> has been a far from trivial experience.
> My desire is to migrate our projects to geotools (I'm working at the
> University of Barcelona) because it should allow us to bypass our lack of
> knowledgement around geographical concepts (we don't know, for example, how
> to properly draw a shape on different projections with accuracy) but if I
> have to be honest I'm finding quite painful to achieve even the most simple
> results.
> Both my boss and myself are willing to publish any code we generate but
> after spending two months on those tasks I'm also considering to postpone
> the development until geotools become more developer friendly. I would be
> really sad because I'm sincerely impressed by the capabilities of the
> library.
> Anyway, one think that really works here is the mail list: I'm very pleased
> to read your answers even if I cannot resolve my problems. Thanks for it.
> jv
> ps: oh!!! my god... sorry for the speech... the url of the document was
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/06+Style+Layer+Descriptor+Document
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Michael Bedward <mic...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi jv,
>>
>> Sorry about the docs and the library being out of synch. Which page
>> were you looking at ?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> 2009/9/8 jv <cib...@gm...>:
>> > Thanks Jody, but I don't understand how can I place the mark on the map:
>> > it
>> > only shows how to create the Style but no clue about how to make the
>> > layer.
>> > On the other hand, as usual, the example in the documentation doesn't
>> > compile with the last release, but I think I can make the proper
>> > changes.
>> > Again, thanks.
>> > jv
>
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