Jody, I took a quick trip through the wiki for GeoTools Reprojection. It seems simple enough to use.
However, I am one of those really sick people that needs to see how things work under the hood. Could you tell me where I would look in GeoTools to find out more about how the MathTransforms are calculated for the source and target CoordinateReferenceSystems. All I really know at this point is that you provide the GeoTools API with two ESPG codes and it "magically" returns a MathTransformation. What if I wanted to add support for a custom or new Map projection? What if there was a mistake in the generated MathTransformation that I wanted to fix? >From the perspective of a "potential" maintainer it would be good to know how things are working at a lower level. I'm fairly familiar with geodetic calculations, so I'm not really scared of this (yet). I wonder if any of the GeoTools developers can give me a brief (two or three minute) overview of how GeoTools gets from two (2) ESPG codes to a MathTransform object. If I can get this overview I'll dig into the Javadoc and source code for more details. SS Thanks for indulging my curiousity. On 9/4/07, Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had talked a little the other day about a incorporating third-party > reprojection code into OpenJUMP. I sent a post to the UDig list, since > I know they support "on-the-fly" reprojection. > > I know we don't necessarily want to mess with "on-the-fly" > reprojection in OpenJUMP, but maybe we couls use the reprojection code > from UDig for a stand-alone utility or for a OpenJUMP plug-in. > > Jody Garnett put a section on the wiki for us that talks about this: > > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/Welcome+to+JUMP+Developers > > The Sunburned Surveyor > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sep 4, 2007 3:27 PM > Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Transformation/Reprojection > To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Jody wrote: "Since this question is asked every couple of months by a > jump developer it has made its way into the geotools user guide..." > > I really apologize about that. I'm sure that I'm the jackass that > keeps asking the same question. UDig, GeoTools, GeoAPI, Kosmo, SIGLE, > SkyJUMP, DeeJUMP... > > I have a hardtime keeping track of it all sometimes. Please be patient with > me. > > The section you added to the wiki will be very helpful. I will look it > over and will also forward this message to the JPP Developer List. > > Thanks for all of your help. I look forward to trying out UDig on my > GIS project. :] > > SS > > > On 9/4/07, Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > > > We were discussing options for reprojection/transformation code on the > > > OpenJUMP development list the other day. I know that UDig offers on > > > the fly reprojection, which is why I'm currently trying to download it > > > and get it running. > > > > > > I was curious, is the ,low-level reprojection code something UDig gets > > > from the GeoTools library, or is it code unique to UDig? Does the > > > low-level reprojection code work with GeoTools features, or does it > > > transform individual coordinates? Is it possible to access the API for > > > transformation of individual coordinates? > > > > > It is from the GeoTools library; you can use the "referencing module" > > with out depending on any GeoTools feature stuff. It is suitable for > > OpenJUMP etc... > > > > Since this question is asked every couple of months by a jump developer > > it has made its way into the geotools user guide: > > - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/Welcome+to+JUMP+Developers > > > It seems to me that it would make sense to share reporojection code > > > between OpenJUMP and UDig, especially if we can transform individual > > > coordinate and don't need to deal with the feature model problem. > > > > > Yes it makes sense to share; interfaces via geoapi and implementation > > via geotools, and hopfully swing widgets and swt widgets as well ;-) > > > > Don't worry about stealing worry about forking; if you see anything you > > want out of udig lets make sure we can place it in a common library so > > we can share maintence cost. > > > > Cheers, > > Jody > > _______________________________________________ > > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > > http://udig.refractions.net > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
