Hi,
My questions are:
- What is WPS ? what are its advantages ? (if possible give practical examples)
- Does geoserver support WPS currently ? if not what plans are there to support this new specs in the future.
Thanks,
Roman
Roman Isitua wrote:
Hi,
My questions are:
1. What is WPS ? what are its advantages ? (if possible give practical examples) 2. Does geoserver support WPS currently ? if not what plans are there to support this new specs in the future.
I suppose the answer given on this list by Giuseppe Allegri in February still holds:
http://www.nabble.com/Re:-Spatial-Statistics-Analysis-td15312438.html
Regards,
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Luca Morandini
www.lucamorandini.it
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Hi Roman,
There is currently some work going on by Refractions to implement a WPS server in GeoServer. They are working on creating a community module for it so hopefully soon we will having something, be it probably experimental.
Jody can probably give a better update on the timeline.
-Justin
Roman Isitua wrote:
Hi,
My questions are:
1. What is WPS ? what are its advantages ? (if possible give practical examples) 2. Does geoserver support WPS currently ? if not what plans are there to support this new specs in the future.
Thanks,
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Justin Deoliveira wrote:
Hi Roman,
There is currently some work going on by Refractions to implement a WPS server in GeoServer. They are working on creating a community module for it so hopefully soon we will having something, be it probably experimental.
AFAIK, there a few "things" on the ground regarding WPS:
1) 52north has a Java-based WPS server, which could double as GeoServer datasource.
2) Ominiverdi have a nice Python-based WPS wrapper around GRASS (only a few functions supported).
3) GeoServer is starting to do something about WPS, though it doesn't rely on the work done by 52north (I may be wrong on this, though).
While it is nice to have WPS for publishing some custom processing, is there any possibility to turn a GeoServer-on-WPS into an open source equivalent of ArcGIS Server ?
Sure, there are Java libraries doing some GIS processing, but none having the breadth of a complete GIS... I must confess i have this vision: turn my browser into a GIS-client able to do everything GIS-ish with the help of a faraway server, too far-fetched ?
Regards,
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Luca Morandini
www.lucamorandini.it
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Luca Morandini ha scritto:
Justin Deoliveira wrote:
Hi Roman,
There is currently some work going on by Refractions to implement a WPS server in GeoServer. They are working on creating a community module for it so hopefully soon we will having something, be it probably experimental.
AFAIK, there a few "things" on the ground regarding WPS:
1) 52north has a Java-based WPS server, which could double as GeoServer datasource.
2) Ominiverdi have a nice Python-based WPS wrapper around GRASS (only a few functions supported).
3) GeoServer is starting to do something about WPS, though it doesn't rely on the work done by 52north (I may be wrong on this, though).While it is nice to have WPS for publishing some custom processing, is there any possibility to turn a GeoServer-on-WPS into an open source equivalent of ArcGIS Server ?
Sure, there are Java libraries doing some GIS processing, but none having the breadth of a complete GIS... I must confess i have this vision: turn my browser into a GIS-client able to do everything GIS-ish with the help of a faraway server, too far-fetched ?
No, it's not too far fetched. Refractions pushed a pluggable API for
processes into GeoTools, meaning that new processes can be defined
as the need arises.
So your vision won't become reality overnight, but a little step
at a time, with patience and work, we should be able to get there,
especially if the community starts providing useful and reusable
processes back into the standard GeoServer.
Cheers
Andrea
Andrea Aime wrote:
Luca Morandini ha scritto:
Sure, there are Java libraries doing some GIS processing, but none having the breadth of a complete GIS... I must confess i have this vision: turn my browser into a GIS-client able to do everything GIS-ish with the help of a faraway server, too far-fetched ?
No, it's not too far fetched. Refractions pushed a pluggable API for
processes into GeoTools, meaning that new processes can be defined
as the need arises.
Any plan to use GRASS (via the console engine provided by JGRASS, perhaps) as an *interim* geo-processor ?
Regards,
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Luca Morandini
www.lucamorandini.it
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