On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking into a funding opportunity that might bring some measured
> geometries support in Geotools.
>
> The requirement I have is to be able to handle measured linestring,
> stored in postgis, the measure in question is a time,
> feature also has, as explicit attributes, the absolute times of start and
> end,
> while the measure is teh relative time in seconds since the start point.
> Those need to play in a GeoSever WMS + time support so that when
> a time interval is chosen, the features intersecting it are selected
> (this we already have) but also that they are sliced so that only the
> points within the linestring that are between the chosen stand and end
> time show up (time based geometry slicing)...
> and oh, possibly using a native postgis function to do the slicing, too :-)
>
> Laundry list:
> - be able to advertise that a geometry is measured and eventually
> load the measure, at least in postgis, but with a mechanism that
> is not postgis specific. For this one I was thinking to mimim the
> "partial 3d support"
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Partial+3D+data+support,
> adding a new metadata entry in the geometry descriptor, "MEASURED",
> marking that the geometry is measured
> - slice natively, but also recognize native slicing is not there, and
> be able to do it in memory instead. For this I was thinking about
> a query hint, that can be either supported by the store, or not.
> SLICE_INTERVAL would be the name and the value is a bean
> with (startMeasure,endMeasure,attributeWithStartValue)
>
> Do you believe something like the above would be ok to implement
> on trunk?
>
>
Shall I assume the lack of feedback means there is no particular
opposition to the plan above? :-)
Cheers
Andrea
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