[udig-devel] uDIG/GeoTools data

[Jesse Eichar]

Sounds like a good place to start.  Adding a plugin to uDig from a  
geotools module isn't too much work, but I'd start with evaluating  
the Geotools side of things first.

Jesse

On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:39 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:

> Dave S-B ha scritto:
>> We're just about to start development of an RCP application which  
>> will use uDIG. The main data store for the application is likely  
>> to be MySql and it'd be really handy to be able to include the GIS  
>> data in the database along with the normal data using MySql's  
>> spatial extensions.
>> So, has anyone had any experiences with MySql's spatial extensions  
>> (i.e. good/bad?) and does anyone know if there is a datastore/ 
>> featuresource available?
>
> There is a datastore in GeoTools, but it's not actively mantained  
> and could use some love (for example, geometries are transferred  
> over the
> wire a WKT instead as of WKB as far as I remember).
>
> As for the mysql spatial extensions, they are very minimal. Most  
> operations are really faked out, for example intersects() will work
> against the bounding boxes, not against the real geometries,
> and many others are just plain missing. Consider carefully if you can
> live with these limitations, and look at the wealth of capabilities
> that postgis has instead.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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