I would like to take over maintainance of this module and possibly move it
to an extension. The current code in SVN is broken (built against geoserver
1.6.x) and needs to be updated and slightly restructured as well. Luckily
this means that the maven build setup is aleady in place and I have to only
create a test cases. The worldwind.jar in the maven repo should be updated
to 0.6 from the current worldwind release.
Let me know if all this makes sense and I can take charge of this module.
Hey Tisham, I've been noticing your commits going by - really great work on this. I'm psyched to see better support for worldwind.
A couple ideas to take things a bit further, if you're interested.
One thing that would be awesome is to make sure GeoWebCache works with WorldWind. It may work as a caching WMS already, but I'd be a bit surprised. Another route would be to make a worldwind service for GWC, like there is for google and bing (see http://geowebcache.org/docs/1.2.0/services/gmaps.html) It would output tiles in the exact format WorldWind expects. Maybe it's the same as another output, but even if it is having a named worldwind service would make it more obvious.
The other idea would be to make a GUI plugin for WW Java. This could be similar to istyler - http://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/src/community/istyler/ Basically a preview page that's a plugin, with WW Java embedded. Ideally it would pre-populate the layers that are in GeoServer. This way people could see how easy it is to get their GeoServer data in to world wind.
With your output formats and with GWC caching it could make things on worldwind quite fast.
Keep up the great work, thanks for taking over the module, it's nice to see progress. Also, whenever you're ready we'd be happy to put a blog post up about it.
I would like to take over maintainance of this module and possibly move it
to an extension. The current code in SVN is broken (built against geoserver
1.6.x) and needs to be updated and slightly restructured as well. Luckily
this means that the maven build setup is aleady in place and I have to only
create a test cases. The worldwind.jar in the maven repo should be updated
to 0.6 from the current worldwind release.
Let me know if all this makes sense and I can take charge of this module.
Regards,
Tisham(whatnick).
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Chris Holmes
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Expert service straight from the developers.
DDS/BIL are always requested in EPSG:4326. I am not sure what is involved in
making a service i GWC but the high throughput required by worldwind will
definitely benefit from using GWC. I have completed the test cases for the
wwformat module and it should be ready to be promoted to an extension, at
least I know how to write more tests and make it more robust.
See what you can do about adding it to your system.
