* [A.D. 20/01/07 17:59], Andrea Aime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote:
> Andrea Antonello ha scritto:
> >>>In fact I'm just playing around with the geotools libraries 'cause I
> >>>found finally time to go throught the news and enhancements all you guys
> >>>brought into it. Here I can add that I'm amazed, you guys made an
> >>>incredible work! The coverage is the part that most interests me, since
> >>>in JGrass we are having big changes in near future, so I want to see how
> >>>to deal with compatibility. We have almost only raster elaborations...
> >>Aaah, JGrass... as a former GRASS developer (not even a user today, 
> >>sigh) my pipe dream would be to have a GRASS datastore and a GRASS
> >>raster reader. 
> >
> >I did that in the past for JGrass and already started to supply to this 
> >list the reader.
> >I have to find the time to have a good look through the coverage
> >package, to understand how to create the reader and writer, I would be 
> >willing to maintain a binary GRASS raster files reader and writer at some 
> >point, honestly. :)
> 
> Now that's great news :-)
> Is it pure java or does it use the GRASSlib? (if GRASSlib is still 
> around, was just being created when I left GRASS).

It is pure java. It reads GRASS raster integer, float and double maps, 
compressed and non, but it writes just double maps. At the end of that I
just wanted to stop with that bit and byte stuff... :)

> >>Point them to the GRASS location and boom, serve all your
> >>data live on the web. Unfortunately I think I'll never manage
> >>to turn them into reality, but it would so cool...
> >
> >Why never reality?
> >What about the vector format? Anyone in mind to do the
> >reader? 
> 
> It may not be impossible. It's just that when you ate geotools
> and geoserver all the week you may not be eager to implement
> something that big on the weekend :-)
> It's about keeping a balance between work and private life, especially
> when, like me, you are working at home anyways. Well, calling it work
> seems strange since I enjoy it so much, but that's the very reason
> one has to be cautious and not let it eat all the non sleeping hours
> right away.

Absolutely agreed, I'm also waiting for the light to illuminate me on
that :) 

Ciao
Andrea


> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 

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