The main goal of this project is to have a .NET GIS solution that is fast and reliable for any kind of .NET platform, PocketPC and Sql Server 2005 (through CLR integration) included.

The project also includes some parts of another .NET library GeoTools.NET, that integrates the capabilities of read/write data from and to file formats such as Shapefile format, coordinate transformations and projections, and much more.

NetTopologySuite is intended as a direct-port of all the functionalities offered by JTS Topology Suite API: the main goal of the project is simply to expose JTS API in a '.NET way' (as example using Properties, Indexers, etc.), but not to add new functionality (for the moment...).

PLEASE READ: we're moving! NTS v2.X branch is now more stable and powerful that older 1.X versions, and are more supported by community, so we plan to modify svn repository soon, moving branch to trunk and maintaining the current trunk as a tag. No plans at the moment about how we do this, but if someone maintains externals of this repository, stay tuned (http://groups.google.com/group/nettopologysuite/browse_thread/thread/2c68e515018355d5) :)