| Hi all,
I am on vacation for a week but I thought I would fire off a quick summary of Foss4G for those who are interested:
- Geotools a plan has been drafted to try to manage the forking that has been taking place in that project (final approval will naturally be a long time coming)
- The Geotools code base is going to be split into a number of small projects
- The Geotools name will be used to describe the set of "Geotools projects"
- The first projects that will be created are:
- Referencing Project
- Metadata Project
- Coverage Project
- Main Project
- The Referencing, Metadata and Coverage project will be maintained by Geomatys and will have a Java 1.6 and Java 1.5 versions
- The "Main" Project will be the current Geotools without the Metadata and Referencing modules. It will depend on those modules.
- As a result of this there will be 2 Coverage implementations to choose from
- Desktop Clients
- There was an introduction to a new Desktop GIS project. It is java based and is called OrbisGIS. Its license is GPL3 do it is a direct competitor to GVSig but not uDig and it is developed by what appears to be an education center in France, IRSTV.
- GVSig and QGis are still very strong. GVSig has become the official GIS client for Venezuela.
- Geoserver
- GeoServer 1.7 is about to come out it is currently a RC3.
- There is much talk about the WebProcessing module that Refractions has recently implemented for GeoServer and Geotools
- JGrass
- JGrass has finished being ported from the previous non-uDig framework to the uDig framework.
- For those who don't know JGrass. It provides a User interface for running a number of Hydrological operations as well as providing a scripting interface for writing scripts using the hydrological operations as well as all of the Grass API.
- The hydrological operations are pure Java and if they are all that are required then Grass does not need to be installed.
- The current work on JGrass is to create UI components for more Grass operations and create a Geotools Datastore for Grass Vector data and Grass Raster data so that any Geotools based application can access those types of data.
- BeeGIS
- BeeGIS is a uDig-based solution for mobile collection of data.
- BeeGis is designed to be run on a laptop or a Tablet PC
- Features include:
- Recieving data from a GPS, rendering it in the map and exporting it to Postgis or shapefiles
- Pinning files and notes to a GPS location. For example you could attach photos to a location and write some notes about the location. There are some special features that allow users to annotate images that are attached to a location
- An annotation tool for drawing on a map.
- Secure W*S
- I talked to 52 North about their software for securing WMS and WFS. They currently have layer level security and use token based security
- They mentioned another company from Germany, I can't find the name right now, that offers bbox level security.
- As mentioned before Geoserver provides layer level security on all of its services but only with basic authentication currently.
- WPS
- 52 north has had a Web Processing service for some time now. This year they are attempting to add Coverage Processing to the offerings
- There is a module for Geoserver that adds WebProcessing but it is not part of the official Geoserver and needs to be compiled manually.
- Sextante
- Sextante is now integrated in OpenJump and GVSig. A uDig plugin will be released shortly as will integration in Talend SDI
Jesse |
