On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Steve Way
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jody,
>
> Last year I extended Christian’s imagemosaic-jdbc module to support Oracle
> Georaster.  This however, was quite a dirty implementations and had a
> dependency on about 11 external Oracle java libraries (which, is not
> workable in the opensource world!).
>
> The imagemosiac-jdbc module was then officially extended by the community,
> however, it is limited to only working with the Oracle Georaster format if a
> mosaic has been created in the DB.
>
> What I have created in collaboration with another developer (Baskar
> Dhanapal), and would like to release to the community, is a plugin, which is
> dependant only on one external Oracle Library (the Oracle JDBC Driver
> ojdbc14.jar), and works with the most common GeoRaster data model, where
> there are many raster tiles for a given dataset and does not rely on the DBA
> to create a mosaic within Oracle.  An example of this would be the Ordnance
> Survey 1:10,000 scale raster products, where there are 10,585 tiles.  To
> create a mosaic for this is timely, high maintenance (as mosaic would need
> to be re-created even if a few tiles were updated) and costly in storage.
> The proposed module would mosaic on the fly, and take out those issues
> mentioned above.
>
> I hope yourself and the community see the benefit to having this module, and
> accept this as a formal request to submit.  We will definitely be using this
> in the WMS service we provide to Ordnance Survey(GB) in the current
> Geoserver upgrade to 2.1.0 for INSPIRE compliance in the coming months.

I certainly see the benefit, very interesting indeed.

So this would be a new community module.
Pushing it to a supported status would require a number of steps:
- get unit testing level above a certain threshold (I think it's 50%,
so not high)
- have a stable maintainer (who will take care of the module in the future?)
- sign the contributor agreement, otherwise we cannot redistribute it
  (I actually don't remember if we even accept it as a community module
   if you did not sign the contributor agreement)

I'm looking forward to see this working wit GeoServer :-)

Cheers
Andrea

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