Java GIS Collaboration

Collaboration?

It seems there is a call for collaboration between Java-based GIS projects like Jump and GeoTools, or uDig and gvSig every once in a while. This is an attempt to move from talk to action, since we usually just nod and say "yeah, we should collaborate" and it ends there.

Java-based GIS Projects

• GeoAPI
• GeoTools
• gvSig
• JUMP / OpenJUMP
• JTS
• uDig / JGrass
• ...

What components?

• GeoAPI (OGC/ISO specifications)
• GeoTools
• JTS

Contacts

People from each team who are taking part in this discussion: ...

Problems

Licensing

• LGPL vs GPL: everyone can use the LGPL code; GPL code will get less reuse

Ideas

• draw a picture (who is using what right now?)
• have an IRC meeting and figure out where we can collaborate