Simone Giannecchini ha scritto: > Ciao Jean, > I am not sure which version of ArcGIS you are using, but looks like it > is the one that relies on GDAL itself :-). > > Gdal should allow you (us?) to elploit such geotiff, I am not so sure > about ways to convert it with GDAL to something that GeoServer can > exploit directly, like a multiband geotiff. > I guess that the best thing would probably be to start including the > GDAL geotiff plugin as part of GeoTools so that we could optionally > use it in GeoServer to server geotiff as well, this should not be too > much work using the gdal extensions, but I suspect it would not even > be 1h work. > > Anyway, the reason that I have been excluding geotiff support from the > GDAL extension has been that so far we have been quite able to do what > we needed with the java version therefore I did not like the idea of > mixing the two (and there also implications with the need for having > native libs around, which is always a pain). Now with the support for > statistics and RAT tables, I start to see the need for supporting GDAL > geotiff directly. I am cc'ing the devel list to get some feedback from > other developers.
I would not be against having the option, we just need to document well the pros and cons of each choice Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
