Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-22 Thread Andrea Aime
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Phil Scadden p.scad...@gns.cri.nz wrote:  In my spare time I'm also working on a new store You have spare time despite all your voluntary support for Geoserver? I am amazed and I salute you. Well, it does not really go like that :-) During the week everything

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-22 Thread Ákos Maróy
Andrea, GML as a datastore is not supported since a few years ago. No one was maintaining that datasource and while GML is a good and rich data exchange format it is not suitable for data serving, it's slow to parse, uses a lot of disk space and does not have any spatial index. indeed.

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-22 Thread Andrea Aime
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Ákos Maróy a...@maroy.hu wrote: Andrea, GML as a datastore is not supported since a few years ago. No one was maintaining that datasource and while GML is a good and rich data exchange format it is not suitable for data serving, it's slow to parse, uses a lot

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-22 Thread Ákos Maróy
Andrea, I'd say, definitely not its purpose. Data exchange formats share the same features as GML, they are verbose, very powerful, very slow, the focus is on expressiveness not performance. To draw a parallel, dxf is a popular data exchange for CAD data, but no one would think of working

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-22 Thread Matt Walker
Hi, I might be able to help with regards to loading GML into suitable format for use with GeoServer such as PostGIS using ogr2ogr. I've written a wrapper script in Python to load Ordnance Survey GML data into any of the formats OGR can write to which is available on GitHub:

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-21 Thread Andrea Aime
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Ákos Maróy a...@maroy.hu wrote: but despite this, when going for the 'add new datasource' page, GML is not listed among possible vector data sources. I wonder how one can try out GML support in GeoServer? GML as a datastore is not supported since a few years

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-21 Thread Charles Galpin
Andrea, are there any example data stores you'd recommend looking at to use as a guide/skeleton for implementing a pure java datastore? We are considering doing this for one of our data sets. Thanks, charles On Nov 21, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: As another option one could use the

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-21 Thread Andrea Aime
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Charles Galpin cgal...@lhsw.com wrote: Andrea, are there any example data stores you'd recommend looking at to use as a guide/skeleton for implementing a pure java datastore?  We are considering doing this for one of our data sets. I've answered a similar

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-21 Thread Charles Galpin
Thanks! On Nov 21, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Charles Galpin cgal...@lhsw.com wrote: Andrea, are there any example data stores you'd recommend looking at to use as a guide/skeleton for implementing a pure java datastore? We are considering doing

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-21 Thread Phil Scadden
In my spare time I'm also working on a new store You have spare time despite all your voluntary support for Geoserver? I am amazed and I salute you. Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. Do not copy or disclose

Re: [Geoserver-users] GML in GeoServer?

2011-11-21 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 21/11/11 22:36, Andrea Aime wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Charles Galpincgal...@lhsw.com wrote: Andrea, are there any example data stores you'd recommend looking at to use as a guide/skeleton for implementing a pure java datastore? We are considering doing this for one of our