GeoTools

Core features

• Definition of interfaces for key spatial concepts and data structures

  • Integrated Geometry support provided by Java Topology Suite (JTS)
  • Attribute and spatial filters using OGC Filter Encoding specification

• A clean data access API supporting feature access, transaction support and locking between threads

  • Access GIS data in many file formats and spatial databases
  • Coordinate reference system and transformation support
  • Work with an extensive range of map projections
  • Filter and analyze data in terms of spatial and non-spatial attributes

• A stateless, low memory renderer, particularly useful in server-side environments.

  • Compose and display maps with complex styling
  • Vendor extensions for fine control of text labels and color blending

• Powerful schema assisted parsing technology using XML Schema to bind to GML content

  • The parsing / encoding technology is provided with bindings for many OGC standards including GML, Filter, KML, SLD, and SE.

• GeoTools Plugins: open plug-in system allowing you to teach the library additional formats

  • Plug-ins for the ImageIO-EXT project allowing GeoTools to read additional raster formats from GDAL

• GeoTools Extensions

  • rovide additional capabilities built using the spatial facilities of the core library.
  • Extensions provide graph and networking support (for finding the shortest path), validation, a web map server client, bindings for XML parsing and encoding and color brewer!

• GeoTools Unsupported

  • GeoTools also operates as part of a wider community with a staging area used to foster new talent and promote experimentation.
  • Highlights include swing support (used in our tutorials!), swt, local and web process support, additional symbology, additional data formats, generation of grids and a couple of implementations of ISO Geometry.

• Supported Formats

  • Raster formats and data access including arcsde, arcgrid, geotiff, grassraster, gtopo30, image (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG), imageio-ext-gdal, imagemosaic, imagepyramid, JP2K, matlab
  • Database support for db2, h2, mysql, oracle, postgis, spatialite, sqlserver
  • Vector formats and data access including arcsde, csv, dxf, edigeo, excel, geojson, org, property, shapefile, a wfs client
  • Advanced vector formats including application schema support allowing mapping of information to a predefined data product.
  • XML Bindings for Java data structures and bindings provided for the following: xsd-core (xml simple types), fes, filter, gml2, gml3, kml, ows, sld, wcs, wfs, wms, wps, vpf. Additional Geometry, Filter and Style parser/encoders available for DOM and SAX applications.