Hi Andrea,
What is the name of the correct approach? I've always wondered if this was
even a solvable problem space... .
Steve
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Ian Turton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> One of the answers to this GIS.SE question (
>> http://gis.stackexchange.com/q/78167/79) pointed to
>> https://github.com/geobeyond/fluxomajic which is a GeoServer plugin
>> (actually a GeoTools filter) that does what looks like a nice job of
>> providing offset line strokes. It might be worth talking to the authors and
>> see if we can roll it in to the main code base as this is a commonly
>> requested feature.
>>
>> I haven't seen any mention of this before (if its well known apologies).
>>
>
> The license (GPL3) is incompatible, maybe they are interested in changing
> it?
>
> Specifically for the offset line, the technique the are using to build the
> offset line (using JTS buffer facilities) has been discussed already with
> Martin Davis
> and rejected because it only works in some cases:
> https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-3912
> Maybe they solved some of the issues using post-processing? Don't know.
>
> On the bright side, at my company we landed funding to implement one that
> works for good, and that is fast enough
> for rendering usage, I'm just not sure when I'm going to start
> implementing it
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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