FYI: I've had users which because of the simplicity to create them (when you use Fortran als programming language...), used them to create time series for (dispersion) models. So that could be an argument?
I've had a lot of fun setting these up for Geoserver... (so I would not vote for complete code removal, unless I was the only user for ascii grids :-)) (now moving to netcdf...) Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde On 6/12/23 17:44, Andrea Aime wrote:
Hi all, with this mail I want to discuss the eventual removal of the ASCII grid output format from the WCS codebase. The output format produces the classic ESRI ASCII grid, a text based export format suitable only for single banded raster data. I was discussing with Simone about it, and we are skeptical about its current usefulness: * Limited functionality, due to single band support * Inefficient format, and inefficient implementation (dumps to file first, streams out later, inviting timeouts) * Difficult to discover MIME, it's reported as "application/x-gzip" along the output formats * Unaware of significant usage in the wild * The GML grid output format provides a better alternative, still human readable, but human readable and can be streamed If you disagree, we'd like to hear why. If you agree, what option should we follow? Two ideas: * Simple code removal, not worth spending extra effort * Migration to community module, to provide soft landing for those that might have been using it Thoughts? Cheers Andrea == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit http://bit.ly/gs-services-us <http://bit.ly/gs-services-us>for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf Technical Lead GeoSolutions Group phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 339 8844549 https://www.geosolutionsgroup.com/ <https://www.geosolutionsgroup.com/> http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it <http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it> ------------------------------------------------------- Con riferimento alla normativa sul trattamento dei dati personali (Reg. UE 2016/679 - Regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati “GDPR”), si precisa che ogni circostanza inerente alla presente email (il suo contenuto, gli eventuali allegati, etc.) è un dato la cui conoscenza è riservata al/i solo/i destinatario/i indicati dallo scrivente. Se il messaggio Le è giunto per errore, è tenuta/o a cancellarlo, ogni altra operazione è illecita. Le sarei comunque grato se potesse darmene notizia. This email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. We remind that - as provided by European Regulation 2016/679 “GDPR” - copying, dissemination or use of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
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