Hi, I wanted to point you at the new "Symbol server" description I added to the SOC page here: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Symbol+server
Relative that that I was also wondering if the "chart symbol factory" could be a SOC project of its own. They are in fact orthogonal, and having some project that is a little easier to implement would not hurt. Talking with Chris H. some other ideas came up: - a fast and accurate SVG renderer. So far we use the batik renderer by default, supports everything, but it's memory bound. What about a streaming but good one instead? To make it look really good we could refactor the streaming renderer so that the drawing part assuming a raster output is completely factored out in a separate painter. This may not be so easy thought, as there are a few parts, like coverage rendering, symbol management that basically assume raster output from the ground up. What I'm saying is that this project would require a significant involvement of the mentor as well (me?) - integrate and pimp up mapfish printing so that it's more efficient when integrated with GeoServer (avoid having it go thru an SVG dump and parse), and so that it can use SVG templates as the map layout definition instead of forcing people into writing a YAML file and enter a change and check dev cycle that the non visual nature of YAML does not make that easy. I guess for the latter we could contact the MapFish people and see if anyone is interested in co-mentoring? Another possible idea that came to mind is having someone take back and finish that GT2/OGR bridge I was working on last year (and that I abandoned due to difficulties in building OGR on Windows without the usage of proprietary tools). We'd need someone with a decent proficiency in both Java and C thought. Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
