Just to make it clear, as I've just read Cameron's reply, I'm not proposing to make AcidMaps' core part of geoserver, I love it being a separate project, but just contributing the GeoServer plugin.
Cheers, Gabriel On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 02:57 -0300, Gabriel Roldán wrote: > Hey Mauricio, > > just now had time to look deeper into the project. The GeoServer plugin > looks really great. Reusing the WMS "infrastructure" in such a clever > way is just neat, and being able to use any point layer as data source > rocks. > > Question: would it work with multi-point layers too? > > I would like to push the plugin into GeoServer's svn as a community > module, if you guys are up to it, and get you commit access on that > module. We could even arrange to have the native libraries installed on > the hudson server and get it into continuous integration once it > upgrades to "extension" (i.e. supported and documented). > > We could even set up a couple integrated demos. I think there should be > a lot of people interested on it and perhaps having it as an official > GeoServer extension would give it a bit more of exposure to users, which > could be of interest to you. > > I for instance already have a use case in mind which is creating heat > maps out of the Suite's monitoring plugin database. > > Ok, too much of a rant so far. Congratulations on the project again! > > Chau loco, > Gabriel. > > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 18:54 -0300, Mauricio Miranda wrote: > > Hi there! > > > > We finally released the new version of AcidMaps [1] with a great change, it > > works as a Geoserver plugin. > > > > That means you can use your own configured WMS layers to build Heatmaps, > > Isolines and other interpolated maps ON THE FLY! > > > > The team has been working hard and we made a complete rewrite of the core, > > optimizing the process to make them faster and more accurate. > > > > Behind that, we build the Geoserver plugin to make AcidMaps easier to use > > and more "OGC like". > > > > Caution! The plugin depends on Geoserver 2.1 (Beta release). The previous > > releases are not yet supported. > > > > For who doesn't know about AcidMaps: > > > > * AcidMaps is an open source library that generates interpolated images > > from a set of valued points in real time. > > > > * It's can be used to generate advanced visualizations with point datasets: > > (e.g.: sales, temperature, atmospheric pressure, population, etc...) > > > > You can see a full demo [2] built using Flex/OpenScales where you can play > > with the parameters to see different results. > > > > It is deployed in our own local server and it could get stuck quickly, so > > please be patient... > > > > If you want to give it a try with you own data, take a look to the Quick > > Start instructions [3], it is really simple! > > > > There's a reference doc [4] where you can get more details. > > > > Please, let us know your opinion because it's still in beta and your > > experience will be very helpful. > > > > [1] http://acidmaps.org > > [2] http://acidmaps.org/flex/index.html > > [3] https://github.com/XoomCode/AcidMaps/ > > [4] https://github.com/XoomCode/AcidMaps/wiki > > > > -- > > Mauricio Miranda > > Chief Development Officer > > http://www.xoomcode.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Gabriel Roldan [email protected] Expert service straight from the developers _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
