We are impressed that Jesse is already getting a raster view plugin for uDig using OSSIM. Thought it would be useful to summarize the telecons that we have had in the last couple of weeks between the uDig and OSSIM teams. Our goal is to focus on uDig as a preferred end user client and incrementally expose OSSIM capabilities through the tool. The OSSIM team is in the "final" stages of testing and configuring 1.6.0 of the library and tools. The first area of focus will be to open and load an OSSIM view as a uDig layer. Scott Bortman generated and added a JOSSIM branch last week. This will provide Java bindings to the OSSIM library. OSSIM is written in C++ using a MCV (Model Controller View) approach. The core is found under the ossim tag and is GUI independent. ossim_qt is the cvs tag for the controllers, views and applications that are based on the Trolltech qt library. ImageLinker is one of the apps in ossim_qt and shows the MCV classes and methods. The Visual Chain Editor is included in ImageLinker and demonstrates the dynamically connectable objects and plugins. We would like to see this functionality exposed in uDig through the GEF view that Jody mentioned. Finally, it would be really cool to wire in osgPlanet capabilities for 3D geospatial visualization. Hopefully we will get our release completed this week and will be able to provide OSSIM integration support to the uDig team. Mark Lead Scientist, Site Manager Titan Corporation. Melbourne Florida office 1901 S Harbor City Blvd Suite 710 Melbourne Fl 32951 |
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