Re: [udig-devel] JGrass and uDig

[jeichar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ok Slightly more informed now.

As far as I know wednesday is a good time for me to meet.  I assume you are some 
9 hours later than us who live on the Pacific?  So perhaps 10:00 PST? Although 
if you would like I could get online at 7:00 PST as well.

Integration into uDig should not be such a big problem.  We have carefully 
designed the catalog and Renderers for just this sort of issue.  For example I 
have added OSSIM to uDig.  The only reason we don't have public OSSIM plugins is 
because of problems getting the libraries required OSSIM to be recognized by 
eclipse (and the problem of building/obtaining all the libraries).  

I will be happy to give you support in doing this.

This will allow you to display the raw data.  Next you will need a style.  The 
StyleConfigurator extension point allows you to hook into uDig and define a 
style for your data.  Again you will have very few dependencies outside of your 
own library to do this.

Finally we have an operation framework that allows operations to be run on 
objects in the uDig workbench.  They will typically be what ever object (or 
objects) selected by in a view.  

Obviously there are numerous details here I am skipping.  One issue we will 
encounter is that the Rendering framework will be re-designed soon.  But 
hopefully the API changes will be minimal.  The ETA for this is not certain but 
I expect it to occur just after 1.1 is released.

Jesse

Quoting Antonello Andrea <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> Hi list,
> I'm Andrea Antonello, coordinator of JGrass.
> For those that do not know JGrass at all, it is a GIS heavily dedicated to
> hydrogeomorphologic issues. While it is very advanced in that field, we
> have problems on everything regarding vectors (features) and in general
> to keep uptodate the more generic GIS related base.
> 
> Lots of changes are going on at the moment in the JGrass team and
> architecture. One thought and wish of mine would be that to join the
> uDig development and merge all the raster algorythms into it, as well as
> everything suitable from JGrass. Following the last coverage changes in
> geotools, I guess this should be possible and would bring positive
> additions to both groups. Please take into consideration that this would
> anyway mean a hughe amount of work from our side.
> To understand if this could be in fact feasible, I would need to talk
> to someone (or the IRC channel) about advantages and if and how this
> could be achieved.
> 
> Please let me first of all know if the uDig team is interested in this and to
> who I may talk to about this issue.
> 
> Best regards,
> Andrea
> 
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