2021-08-20
News item: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-community-program-welcomes-the-proj-jni-project/
The PROJ-JNI project has been accepted into the OSGeo Community program.
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is pleased to welcome PROJ-JNI [1] to our Community program. PROJ-JNI is a project that exposes Java Native Interface bindings to the PROJ [2] C/C++ library.
The OSGeo Community program recognizes applications and tools that are geospatial, freely available with an open source license, and are setup to collaborate fairly. This program helps OSGeo promote innovation and the hard work of teams and organizations worldwide.
About PROJ-JNI
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PROJ-JNI is a project that exposes Java Native Interface bindings to the PROJ C/C++ library, the well-known and widely-used coordinate transformation library that underpins most open-source geospatial coordinate transformations. This project allows JVM ecosystem developers to build directly upon recent and future improvements to PROJ via native bindings, rather than requiring that libraries separately re-implement all projection and transformation functionality in JVM languages.
PROJ-JNI currently works with system-installed versions of PROJ, and is currently looking into the feasibility of simplifying the end-user experience via pre-compiled native libraries for different platforms.
Source code is hosted on GitHub [3], which also contains documentation, installation, and information about contributing.
About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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The Open Source Geospatial Foundation [4] is a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) organization to empower everyone with open source geospatial. The software foundation directly supports projects serving as an outreach and advocacy organization providing financial, organizational and legal support for the open source geospatial community.
OSGeo works with GeoCat, OPENGIS.ch, Gaia3D and other sponsors, along with our partners to foster an open approach to software, standards, data and education.
[1] https://www.osgeo.org/projects/proj-jni/
[2] https://proj.org/
[3] https://github.com/Kortforsyningen/PROJ-JNI
[4] https://www.osgeo.org/about/