Simone Giannecchini ha scritto: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Simone Giannecchini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Oct 2, 2006 12:01 PM > Subject: Permission to replace old ArcGrid plugin > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]>, Geoserver-devel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi list, > I am asking permission to replace the old arcgrid plugin to read ascii > grids in esri and grass format with the brand new implementation tha > actually reside under spike. > > There are two pieces of it, as the effort to produce decent coverage > plugins requires: > > 1>the real imageio plugin that does all the I/O > > 2>the geotools coverage plugin that relies on 1 for I/O but add > georeferencing information on to of it. > > > My plan is as follows: > > 1>Upload the imageio plugin as a jar file. > 2>Put a dependency from the above jar in the new arcgrid geotools plugin. > 3>Completely replace the old geotools arcgrid plugin with the new one. > 4>Add this plugin to geoserver-raster. > > What is missing on this new plugin: > -ability to read directly from gzipped files > The reason of this is that first of all it is really counterproductive > in terms of performaces and also is a pain to integrate this > capability with imageio (I could do it, but it is really low low low > priority for me). > > > What we are going to gain: > -performances > -tiling native > -performances > -decimation on reading (nearest neighbohr subsampling from disk) > -performances > -clean separation between raw data I/O and metadata I/O > -performances > -performances > -performances
+1 for me :-p Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
