RE: [udig-devel] JGrass and uDig & DIVA-GIS

[Andrea Antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Reinhard,

> I am Reinhard Simon from the International Potato Center. We are
> working too on an application being moved on to uDig called DIVA-GIS.
> Our focus is on georeferencing support, biodiversity analysis and
> plant/variety distribution prediction tools. I''ve, too, an interest
> in piping models some time down the road.
> I noticed your reference to an open modeling standard. Do you think
> the standard is generic enough to link biodiverisity or species models
> with other models (climate, water,..)?

That open modeling was designed very flexible for linking whatever in a
time chain. With OpenMI we are talking about a set of Interfaces and
since the implementation, apart of the standard one, can be up to the
user, I assume it should be ok also for what you need it for.

> An alternative I've been reflecting about is using workflow engines -
> do you have any experience there or thoughts on relative merits?

I never used workflow engines, can you supply me some example?
Probably it would be better to go offlist, since we are sliding out of
topic.

Ciao
Andrea