Can I get a show of hands of people interested in Oracle GeoRaster
support in GeoServer via GDAL and ImageIO? Also, are there any
organizations perhaps interested in contributing funding for something
like this?
Thanks,
Jeff
Jeffrey Johnson ha scritto:
Can I get a show of hands of people interested in Oracle GeoRaster
support in GeoServer via GDAL and ImageIO? Also, are there any
organizations perhaps interested in contributing funding for something
like this?
I cannot talk about sponship, but generally speaking it would be
better to write a support for GeoRaster in pure java, leveraging
the JAI cache, and the same connection pool of the Oracle
data store that is probably around and used to read vector data.
It would be more stable, faster, and would allow us to
provide bug fixes in case of problems.
Just my 2 cents... of course, building on top of GDAL might
prove to be cheaper in the short term.
Cheers
Andrea
--
Andrea Aime
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Expert service straight from the developers.
In fact this is the way that Oracle's own MapViewer tool does it.
Jeff
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Andrea Aime <aaime@anonymised.com> wrote:
Jeffrey Johnson ha scritto:
Can I get a show of hands of people interested in Oracle GeoRaster
support in GeoServer via GDAL and ImageIO? Also, are there any
organizations perhaps interested in contributing funding for something
like this?I cannot talk about sponship, but generally speaking it would be
better to write a support for GeoRaster in pure java, leveraging
the JAI cache, and the same connection pool of the Oracle
data store that is probably around and used to read vector data.
It would be more stable, faster, and would allow us to
provide bug fixes in case of problems.Just my 2 cents... of course, building on top of GDAL might
prove to be cheaper in the short term.Cheers
Andrea--
Andrea Aime
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Expert service straight from the developers.
I'd like to clarify things a bit since I suggested Jeffrey to bring
this up to the ML since others may be interested.
As of now I see two ways to support Orcale GeoRaster, and both would
pass though an imageio plugin:
1> with gdal
2> without gdal
Path 1 should be easier and shorter, however it would not make me
extremely happy, not because I don't trust gdal but rather because in
the context where Oracle is used (Enterprise) it is better to be able
to manage connection pools and everything directly and sharing them
with the code that manages vector stuff. I am afraid this would not be
possible while using GDAL or little not so easy.
Moreover I would be a bit scared by the possibility to manage time and
other complex metadata with gdal.
Path 2 would be a bit more complex for sure but it would give us
access to the full potential of georaster (of course we can decide to
which extent we would support such potential, at least in the first
iteration).
If I were asked which one is preferable, I would say path 2, but this
also depends on funding available.
Regards,
Simone.
PS This email also means that we would be interested in developing the
plugin 
-------------------------------------------------------
Ing. Simone Giannecchini
GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Owner - Software Engineer
Via Carignoni 51
55041 Camaiore (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584983027
fax: +39 0584983027
mob: +39 333 8128928
http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://simboss.blogspot.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini
-------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Andrea Aime <aaime@anonymised.com> wrote:
Jeffrey Johnson ha scritto:
Can I get a show of hands of people interested in Oracle GeoRaster
support in GeoServer via GDAL and ImageIO? Also, are there any
organizations perhaps interested in contributing funding for something
like this?I cannot talk about sponship, but generally speaking it would be
better to write a support for GeoRaster in pure java, leveraging
the JAI cache, and the same connection pool of the Oracle
data store that is probably around and used to read vector data.
It would be more stable, faster, and would allow us to
provide bug fixes in case of problems.Just my 2 cents... of course, building on top of GDAL might
prove to be cheaper in the short term.Cheers
Andrea--
Andrea Aime
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Expert service straight from the developers.------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Geoserver-devel mailing list
Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
Could you maybe put together some estimates of what kind of funding it would take? Then we can try to do a little work to shop it around. I think it would be a great capability to support that many would be interested in. We could at least do a blog post to gauge interest, and try to get a blog post somewhere closer to Oracle users.
In general it'd be great if we could have rough estimates on the roadmap, so potential funders know how much it would take to get something they want done.
Chris
Simone Giannecchini wrote:
I'd like to clarify things a bit since I suggested Jeffrey to bring
this up to the ML since others may be interested.As of now I see two ways to support Orcale GeoRaster, and both would
pass though an imageio plugin:
1> with gdal
2> without gdalPath 1 should be easier and shorter, however it would not make me
extremely happy, not because I don't trust gdal but rather because in
the context where Oracle is used (Enterprise) it is better to be able
to manage connection pools and everything directly and sharing them
with the code that manages vector stuff. I am afraid this would not be
possible while using GDAL or little not so easy.
Moreover I would be a bit scared by the possibility to manage time and
other complex metadata with gdal.Path 2 would be a bit more complex for sure but it would give us
access to the full potential of georaster (of course we can decide to
which extent we would support such potential, at least in the first
iteration).If I were asked which one is preferable, I would say path 2, but this
also depends on funding available.Regards,
Simone.PS This email also means that we would be interested in developing the
plugin-------------------------------------------------------
Ing. Simone Giannecchini
GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Owner - Software Engineer
Via Carignoni 51
55041 Camaiore (LU)
Italyphone: +39 0584983027
fax: +39 0584983027
mob: +39 333 8128928http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://simboss.blogspot.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini-------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Andrea Aime <aaime@anonymised.com> wrote:
Jeffrey Johnson ha scritto:
Can I get a show of hands of people interested in Oracle GeoRaster
support in GeoServer via GDAL and ImageIO? Also, are there any
organizations perhaps interested in contributing funding for something
like this?I cannot talk about sponship, but generally speaking it would be
better to write a support for GeoRaster in pure java, leveraging
the JAI cache, and the same connection pool of the Oracle
data store that is probably around and used to read vector data.
It would be more stable, faster, and would allow us to
provide bug fixes in case of problems.Just my 2 cents... of course, building on top of GDAL might
prove to be cheaper in the short term.Cheers
Andrea--
Andrea Aime
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Expert service straight from the developers.------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Geoserver-devel mailing list
Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Geoserver-devel mailing list
Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
--
Chris Holmes
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Expert service straight from the developers.