Please note, as discussed before, I think that the tiling is a different beast than what the Wiki will be used for. I'm all tiling and just signed up to that mailing list, but we should probably keep the vector data processing chatter away from that discussion. I'm not sure if we want a public data vector processing list or not.
In any case, I will try to get the existing data from the geotools site moved to the new Wiki by Saturday. Early next week I'll start trying to spread the word to some other lists (I'll be hitting PostGIS and MapServer, others please hit whatever you feel is appropriate). Thanks for getting this set up Jody! David On 1/26/06, Allan Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, here's a mailing list: > > http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/tiling > > Now that GeoRSS (http://www.georss.org) is more or less ready (we > still need to do a few final text tweaks and clean up the web site) a > tiling scheme seems like a great Next Thing. > > It seems that we need to define what the resolution levels are, work > out a tiling scheme so that clients can request tiles either by bbox > or by name (maybe these are the same thing) and so that tiles can be > cached and distributed. > > If we then define a dozen or so canonical layers with specific names, > we can tile each of those layers into the tiling scheme and people > could just assume that those layers will always be there. Things like > "boundaries", "water bodies", "roads", "cities", etc. > > If the tiling scheme uses WMS requests, then the tiles can be > generated from some carefully crafted WMS engines with carefully > maintained data sources. People could cache tiles using Squid, > modified httpd software, or perl, python, or ruby hacks. > > The tile fetches would be against web servers that are essentially > serving static files and thus ought to be blazingly fast. > > The whole thing can then be wrapped up in a nice bundle as a WMS > profile. > > And, drum roll.... GeoRSS can be used to describe the tiles and could > be used to help track who has tiles. (Thanks to Andy Hook for that > inspiration) > > Allan > > On Jan 26, 2006, at 03:58, Jody Garnett wrote: > > > David Bitner wrote: > > > >> Now that the chatter has died down, it looks like we have three > >> choices to host a wiki: > >> > >> udig or codehaus and worldwind > >> > >> I'm not personally concerned with udig or worldwind association I > >> think if we put useful stuff out there, people will use it and will > >> hopefully contribute. > >> > > Here is a space - login to create an account (and thus be able to > > edit). If you use it cool, if not > > it is open for others. > > > > - http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DATA/Home > > > > Thanks for putting this information together in a public location - > > something we will all enjoy. > > > > Jody > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > > -- > Allan Doyle > +1.781.433.2695 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
