[udig-devel] GML loading - over the top?

[Vince Darley]

At 23:40 12/09/2007, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>Snowflake doesn't have to guess, they know the structure of OSM
>exactly in advance. So they can deal with things like interlinkages
>quite smartly.  We'd need a topology model to even get started with
>this stuff... or at least enough understanding of topology to
>recognize it when we see it and build simple features with link
>attributes that refer correctly to each other's identifiers.
>
>Since this kind of GML only comes around rarely, simply building
>purpose-built importers (ala snowflake) case-by-case is almost the
>preferred approach.

If this is correct, it would be very helpful if this information was 
included in the documentation of the GML parsers in geotools.  That 
would have made it clear that we were (probably) wasting our time 
attempting to use that code.

cheers,

Vince.