GeoTools Maven Quickstart vs Build Instructions

Frank Warmerdam has a good write up of Getting Started with GeoTools - that makes for painful reading (for me at least). Looks like this is going to result in a few fixes to the documentation.

In the mean time:

• Quickstart (including Maven Quickstart) shows a simple hello world program illustrating how you can use GeoTools in your own application (to load a shapefile and display a map).
• Building (including the use of the Maven Eclipse Plugin) documents how to build GeoTools from source, and use the maven eclipse plugin to generate the .project and .classpath files required to import the projects into the Eclipse IDE.

Thanks to Frank for taking the effort to get involved with the project, and I am happy to see his first pull request come through.

Documentation Updates

Primary purpose of this blog is capturing the ebb and flow of the projects I am involved in ... and remind myself to update the documentation.

GeoTools

In response to the OSGeo board approving a Contribution License agreement for the foundation an update to the GeoTools developers guide was in order:

• Contributors (GeoTools Developers Guide)
• Comitters (GeoTools Developers Guide)

Thanks to Frank and Andrea for the review of these pages. It is my hope that having a contribution license available at the foundation level will help projects going through incubation. The documents themselves are a straight up port of the Apache Contribution licenses.

I also found "yet another page" predating our move to github:

• Creating your own Module (GeoTools Developers Guide)

GeoServer

The recent publication of GeoServer Beginner's Guide made for a great read, and a few links:

• GeoServer (Website): updated to show off the book cover and link to the publishers website
• GeoServer Beginner's Guide (LISAsoft): my review is published on the Company website.

Thank's Packt Publishing for promoting open source and Stefano Iacovella, Brian Youngblood for a handy intro.