* [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 > -- ____________________________________________________________________________ HydroloGIS - Environmental Safety Modelling Siemens Str. 19 via Siemens I-39100 Bozen - Bolzano www.hydrologis.com Andrea Antonello Environmental Engineer PhD Student at www.uniurb.it JGrass, Free Open Source GIS www.jgrass.org tel. +39 0471 068065 mobile: +39 328 8497722 fax: +39 36 328 8497722 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let it be as much a great honour to take as to give learning, if you want to be called wise." Skuggsja' - The King's mirror - 1240 Reykjavik ____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
