A Geography Lesson for Java Developers: Geography and Java in One Teapot

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A practical overview of Java libraries and tools for working with geospatial data, aimed at Java developers without GIS expertise. Covers technologies such as PostGIS, Spring, Hibernate spatial support, JTS, GeoServer and OpenJUMP, and shows how to handle geodata in typical Java development workflows.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:53Speaker and topic
3. 3:35Geodata problems in Java
4. 6:27Geography vs geodesy
5. 7:29Coordinate systems and ellipsoids
6. 10:01Projections and distortions
7. 11:46Geodata types
8. 12:47Java geodata libraries
9. 14:13Storing geodata in DB
10. 14:55Three geodata tasks
11. 15:39Distance between points
12. 19:12Point types and coordinate systems
13. 22:41Polygon containment search
14. 26:50Point-in-polygon check
15. 28:13Points inside area selection
16. 30:47Raster vs vector data
17. 31:53PostGIS geodata indexes
18. 36:07Index testing examples
19. 41:07Index test results
20. 42:52Elevation above sea level
21. 44:18Conclusion

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