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Re: [udig-devel] uDIG, GeoTools and MapInfo Tab
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You may wish to talk to John Hudson who did a uDig based project
working with TAB files a while back.
John do you have any advice on handling TAB files.
I also note there is an example community plugin which uses GDAL to
convert a file format to a temporary shapefile for rendering.
- http://svn.refractions.net/udig/udig/community/lreed/net.refractions.udig.catalog.mitab/
This required a preference page where the user fills in the path to
the command line gdal tools.
Jody
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Balint Persics <persicsb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a GIS software based on uDIG 1.2 and I have several questions.
>
> I need to implement a MapInfo TAB reader since we have a lot of files
> in that format.
> I set up the following plan:
> 0. Use GDAL/OGR Java bindings to read the data.
> 1. Implement the TAB reader as a GeoTools Data plugin (implementing
> org.geotools.data.FeatureReader etc.) Maybe I will port the
> unsupported module from GT 2.4 or implement it form scratch, it is not
> decided yet.
> 2. Create a uDIG plugin, implementing a catalog service.
>
> The following questions arose:
> 1. I want to try out the new optimized renderer in GT 2.7-SNAPSHOT (I
> have files with several hundred megabytes and maybe hundreds of
> thousands of features). How to integrate GT 2.7-SNAPSHOT into uDIG
> 1.2? Simply replace the jars in net.refractions.udig.libs?
> 2. How do I add GDAL Java bindings as a dependency to my GeoTools
> module? Can I use GDAL 1.6 binaries downloaded from
> http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk? I noticed that GDAL Java bindings are a
> great PITA since the API is not backwards compatible between versions
> (eg. ogr.Open(String) vs. ogr.Open(String,int). Is there any API docs
> for correctly using GDAL Java bindings?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Balint PERSICS
>
> --
> Persics Balint
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