OpenJUMP
OpenJUMP-Ex

Suburned Surveyor wrote (January 2006):

I will start work soon on the OpenJUMP-Ex version. I will specifcally be working on the OGD. (Open Geospatial Database.)

The OGD is the specification for a spatial data storage format that can be shared among desktop GIS systems. The specification can be “implemented” by a project on 2 levels. The first is a language interface based on the specification. The second is a software package that actually implements that interface. The OGD specification will layout a directory structure and vendor independent XML representation of geospatial data. (This includes representation of 3D geometries.) I will be working on a Java interface for the spec, and an implementation that will work with OpenJUMP as a client. This implementation will focus on a low memory footprint and should allow OpenJUMP users to work with massive datasets.

The OGD implementation for OpenJUMP will not be full featured at first, but I hope to include the following in my first release:

• GML and Shapefile Import/Export
• Attribute Validation
• Support For 3D Geometries
• A 3D Spatial Index
• Indexed Feature Attributes
• A redesigned feature model that will allow multiple relationships between features and geometries, and the storage of non-spatial information in the database.