Geoserver will no longer produce KML as an output?
This sounds like a fairly major discard - that means no more simple mashups
using Google Earth or Google Maps. Also, Geoserver has that really nice
dynamic interaction with Google Earth (using KMSCORE, etc.)
To me, Google Earth is the one way to set up nice views of Geoserver data,
for regular/basic users, without writing code. (Well, just a little KML
code to define network links.)
I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, but shouldn't there should be some
investigation about how many people are using the Geoserver to interact with
Google Earth?
Or have I misunderstood?
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>wrote:
> Well since KML is maintainerless I think fairly all you can do is get
> things to compile and tests passing in KML (which should not be hard given
> the test coverage) and you are off the hook.
>
> And since KML has become a liability we need to consider yanking it out and
> deprecating it. I am not sure if you are advocating that we remove it
> immediately Jody? I think we would at least have to give users one release
> cycle and announce clearly that we are dropping support for it.
>
> 2c.
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Chris:
>> >
>> > Andrea has been politely helping clean up some of the rendering code in
>> GeoTools; but has not really asked in a blunt enough fashion on the
>> geoserver-devel list.
>> >
>> > The KML code is going to be need in of some serious QA and testing after
>> this patch; do you have any developers who would be good for the work? We
>> could arrange an IRC breakout session (and I could be available to answer
>> any api change questions).
>> >
>> > I don't want to see this patch go ahead; and you learn about a sudden
>> drop in quality when taking GeoServer into production at the end of this
>> release cycle.
>>
>> "Death of kml" is of course exxagerated, but in fact I could only
>> check that the patch attached to
>> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-4597 builds, I did not attempt to
>> use any of the many
>> KML output forms, options and whatnot.
>> The code coverage is not high and I'm confident we'll see some
>> ClassCastException in some
>> code path in KML when the code tries to use a layer as a vector layer
>> (because it needs
>> a feature source and a style) when the old code chewed raster layers
>> the same way anyways
>> (I tried to pay attention, but it's a maze in there, not sure what all
>> the possible call paths are)
>>
>> So it would really need someone to check and fix. I'm not volunteering
>> to be that person.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
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