[Freegis-list] seagis

[Felipe Nievinski]

FYI

SEAGIS
http://seagis.sourceforge.net/

SEAGIS is an open source project implementing a subset of OpenGIS®
Coordinate Transformation Services Specification and OpenGIS® Grid
Coverages Implementation Specification.

The current SEAGIS library supports Cylindrical Mercator, Transverse
Mercator, Lambert Conformal Conical and Stereographic projections.
Because the API closely matches OpenGIS specifications, developers
can switch between this free implementation and any commercial
implementation with no code change (providing that commercial
implementations are OpenGIS compliant). The learning barrier is also
lowered because the API matches a standard one.

A second SEAGIS's goal is to ensure interoperability with standard
Java packages like Java2D and Java Advanced Imaging. SEAGIS extends
existing Java classes like Format for parsing and formatting angles,
and ImageReader for reading ASCII and binary files.

License: LGPL

Help wanted
This project is in an early stage. API may change and some design
decision may be revised in future versions until we reach a stable
release. We welcome comments about current design and suggestions for
improvement. If you are working on a similar project, we specially
welcome discussion about how we could merge efforts.

A technical discussion is underway in the mailing list. If you are
interested, please take a look to the archives and join to the
discussion! The discussion has a good foundation, since there is
already an existing SEAGIS implementation. This is good time to make
your point and maybe change some design decisions before we freeze
the API. Link here.

Note: As of December 2001, CVS statistics are broken of SourceForge
for more than one month. Statistics show 0 commit, while works on
SEAGIS had been done.