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GeoTools is an open source Java library that providestools for geospatial data. Our Users guide provides anoverview of the core features, supported formats and standards support.

GeoTools is licensed under theLGPL. The user guidelicense page describes the less restrictive license for documentation and source code examples.

The developers guide outlines ways tocontribute to GeoTools using patches, pull requests and setting up new modules.

If you are already experienced with GitHub please check ourpull request page before you start!

GeoTools usesApache Maven for a build system. Tobuild the library run maven from the root of the repository.

% mvn clean install

See theuser guidefor more details.

GeoTools usesJIRA, hosted byAtlassian, for issue tracking.

Theuser list is for all questionsrelated to GeoTools usage.

Thedev list is for questions relatedto hacking on the GeoTools library itself.

Visit thewebsite or read thedocs.