Java API

Java interfaces are provided in release 3.0.2 of GeoAPI, which can be downloaded from Maven Central Repository with the following coordinates:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.opengis</groupId>
    <artifactId>geoapi</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.2</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

The Javadoc is available online.

The usage examples provide starting points for applying coordinate operations (e.g. map projections) and for fetching some metadata.

Known implementations

• Apache Spatial Information System (SIS).
• GeoTools wrappers for the GeoTools Java library.
• PROJ4J version 1.4 or later in the proj4j-geoapi module.
• PROJ wrappers in Java for version 6 or later of the PROJ C/C++ library.
• NetCDF wrappers for the Java version of the UCAR netCDF library.

Future work

Upgrade to latest standard versions, Python interfaces and bridge between Java and Python are in progress. This work is described in GeoAPI developments page.