Does anyone know of a library in Java that can parse ESRI Shapefiles?

Question

I\'m interested in writing a visualization program for the road data in the 2009 Tiger/Line Shapefiles. I\'d like to draw the line data to display all the roads for my coun

Answer 1

You can directly use GUI GIS tools so that their is no need of changing the source code of GeoTools.

I use QGIS which does all operations(even more) than GeoTools.

Quantum GIS - An open source Geographic Information System for editing, merging and simplifying shapefile maps. See also: creating maps with multiple layers using Quantum GIS.