Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Getting Started with GT2

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Ruben,

Thanx a lot for your help. Actually I started digging the GT1 source code
and now I'm getting more confident. It's time to move again to GT2.

Your information is really usefull!

Best regards,

Calegari San

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rueben Schulz" <r_j...@ya...>
To: "Aurélio Calegari" <au...@ca...>
Cc: <geo...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Getting Started with GT2


> To Calegari San,
>
> I am also new to geotools2 (lurking for a year), but I will try to
> answer some of your questions.
>
> Geotools2 is a java toolkit/library for geographic programming. The
> wmsserver module that you are using is a WMS server that makes use of
> geotools. Because it does not fit with the toolkit nature of geotools,
> its code and development was recently moved to the GeoServer project. If
> you have questions about web map servers (WMS), you may want to ask on
> their mailing list.
>
> Geotools2 supports many data formats (shapefile, postGIS, oracle
> spatial, arcsde, gml, mapinfo???, etc), so if your street data is in one
> of these formats, you can access it using geotools2. I do not have much
> experience rendering maps in geotools, but the sldstyling module can
> read a sld documents (describes how to symbolize data) and produce style
> objects. These can then be used with a renderer to draw the map. There
> is also a factory with some convenience methods to create style objects
> (if I remember correctly).
>
> Unfortunately geotools2 has not been formally released, and there is a
> lack of tutorials and demo programs. One of the programs that does most
> of what you want is wms. You can examine its code to see how it uses
> geotools. There are also some demos in the org.geotools.demo package
> (j2se-demos module) that open a shapefile and display it. Another source
> of information is the jUnit tests in each module. These tests show how
> to use many of the classes in geotools2. Finally the javadocs are also
> helpful when learning.
>
> Good luck,
> Rueben
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:23, Aurélio Calegari wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to GT2, and also haven't had any previous background in GT1...
> >
> > Does anybody know where I can find further information on how to use
> > it and customize it for my needs?
> >
> > I installed all required stuff to run the servlets and so on.. Well,
> > by accessing http://localhost:8080/wmsserver/index.html I see a slight
> > overview, but all is about showing the US map.
> >
> > What I want to know is if it's possible to access a GIS database with
> > "streets" information, and use the GT2 to print the maps of the
> > streets and so on... Where can I get these docs?
> >
> > Please, any suggestion?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Calegari San
>
>