Hello Chris, Adam and all
Le 15/02/13 17:44, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) a écrit :
Guys, I need to prepare a short talk on Apache SIS for this NOAA meetup next
week.
I'm going to do it over Skype. Would love any input on slides or material you'd
like me to include.
I can send you by email some LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org slides that I
have. Or maybe there is some space that we can use somewhere for this
kind of material? Those slides would surely need to be adapted however.
Le 16/02/13 21:42, Adam Estrada a écrit :
I think that it is important to note that what is currently being worked on not
only helps to promote interoperability, its helping to define it by adhering so
rigorously to ISO and OGC standards. Your's and Martin's involvement with the
OGC GeoAPI working group is huge for the geospatial community because you can
help to promote the use of these standards across all communities. I really
believe that the key takeaway should resemble something like this.
I also believe that our efforts in participating to standards are a very
important aspect. GeoAPI is one aspect, but hopefully would not be the
only one (after all, we still don't know if GeoAPI will succeed). I
think that participation to the meteo-oceanography group is also
important and seems close to the concern of many SIS members. Actually,
I would love to present SIS as a library having a focus on science :-).
One real use case that I have see is crossing data from physicians with
data from oceanographers, for a study of cholera propagation. Because
physicians and oceanographers are two quite different communities,
crossing those data without standards is uneasy. The standards required
here are more complex than the usual WMS (we need quality and
uncertainties estimations, etc.).
An other aspect that we could said is that SIS benefits from the
experience gained from the previous projects: we have learn what worked
and what have been bad idea. Every class that we port to SIS is an
opportunity to revisit it and sometime to simplify it. When a feature
seems overly complex, we have the possibility to search in the previous
projects how this feature was used. This help us to determine how it can
be simplified.
An other reason for revisiting classes one-by-one is that the Java
landscape as changed: JavaFX and Android need to be keep in mind, which
imply for example to try to isolate Java2D dependencies in dedicated
classes. Some factories may be replaced by JSR-330 (dependency
injection). Support for supplementary Unicode characters become worthy,
since they now include geographic symbols. OSGi support became a goal, etc.
Le 17/02/13 00:45, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) a écrit :
Guys: another thing to note. Fast Feather tracks just opened up at
ApacheCon NA 2013. It's an opportunity for a short, but meaningful talk:
http://s.apache.org/BqE
Maybe we should do a Fast Feather on SIS? Any interest?
Do we have someone who can be present?
Martin
