On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Soeren Gebbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear qgis developer, > here are my two cent from the point of view of a GRASS GIS, VTK and > wps-grass-bridge developer : > > IMHO most of these features which are discussed here are covered by > the Web Processing Service > http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps.
Many thanks for the pointer. I am looking into it right now. I kinda suspected we were reinventing the wheel. > The support of the OGC WPS standard in QGIS will allow you to: > - use open standards for interface descriptions > - Integrate the existing WPS server and there processes (~400?) as > algorithms into QGIS > - chain/orchestrate WPS processes from different back-ends > - directly integrate WFS and WCS sources as inputs without the need of > local storage > - Working with QGIS on a silent and long running computer in the > office while the processing is done on a heavy and fast server in the > basement > Those are quite convincing arguments. Also, it would have the advantage of being a clearly defined standard, and probably better thought-out than what we could come up in short time. Your prototype looks very nice, too. Regards, Camilo _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
