I’ve been working on a few different things in the last couple of months, and I thought I should provide an update.
OpenJUMP:I’ve nearly completed the internationalization of the Super Select Tool plug-in for OpenJUMP. This will allow the tool to be translated for use in languages other than my native English. The internationalization process has been a lot more work than I thought, but I have learned a lot. This will hopefully allow me to assist with internationalization work on OpenJUMP in the future.
The only remaining internationalization work on the Super Select tool is the context sensitive help and the tooltips for the plug-in's toolbar.
I’ve also developed a simple installer for OpenJUMP plug-ins in response to some of the trouble others had installing the first releases of the Super Select Tool plug-in. This installer is written in Java and should be fairly easy for other plug-in developers to use. I hope to present the installer on the next release of the Super Select Tool, which will take place after internationalization is completed.
OSGeo:I’m about ½ through with my chapter on Metadata for the Free GIS Book. I hope to have this completed by the end of February? As part of this work I am maintaining the beginning of a multi-language dictionary at the OSGeo.
Starter Dictionary SurveyOS Project:I’ve started writing an article that introduces surveyors to GIS. The introduction is finished, and I hope to move onto some of the meat.
I’ve also done a lot of work on JTS. The implementation of the code to work with angles and directions is nearly complete, and I have added other small utilities for JTS along the way. I need to complete the implementation of the angles package, and then I will focus on unit testing and Javadoc documentation.
As soon as the angle and direction code for JTS Warped is complete I will finish some simple code that will utilize it for working with spatial relationships. I hope to use this spatial relationship library in an article for the OSGeo Journal. My eventual goal will be to incorporate this spatial relationship library into an OpenJUMP plug-in.
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