GeoTools
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GeoTools is a free software (LGPL) GIS toolkit for developing standards compliant solutions. It provides an implementation of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed. GeoTools is a contributor to the GeoAPI project - a vendor-neutral set of Java interfaces derived from OGC specifications - and implements a subset of those.
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GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data. Our Users guide provides an overview of the core features, supported formats and standards support. GeoTools is licensed under the LGPL. The user guide license page describes the less restrictive license for documentation and source code examples. The developers guide outlines ways to contribute to GeoTools using patches, pull requests and setting up new modules. If you are already experienced with GitHub please check our pull request page before you start! GeoTools uses Apache Maven for a build system. To build the library run maven from the root of the repository. The dev list is for questions related to hacking on the GeoTools library itself.
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- Official website
- geotools.org
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- source code repository URL
- github.com/geotools/geotools
- software version identifier
- 34.3
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- GeoTools
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- Core features
- History
- Disambiguation
- See also
- References
- External links
GeoTools is a free software (LGPL) GIS toolkit for developing standards compliant solutions. It provides an implementation of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed. GeoTools is a contributor to the GeoAPI project - a vendor-neutral set of Java interfaces derived from OGC specifications - and implements a subset of those.
It is written in Java and currently is under active development. It is used by GeoServer, uDig, Geopublisher, 52N, Geomajas and many proprietary projects.