[udig-devel] Re: Current and future requirements

[Jesse Eichar]

On 6-Feb-07, at 5:18 AM, Andrea Antonello wrote:

> Is there a particular reason for waiting for gdal for the ECW support?
> We used to have it in JGrass through the ermapper library. As far as I
> know gdal will have the same problem, i.e. that you can't  
> distribute the
> library. However you can produce the code and let the user download  
> the
> jar on its own. It is tricky, but I assume gdal has the same  
> problem (I
> can't remember right now). Something changed in the licenses, but I
> didn't gave it a look.
>

Well now I know.  I really don't know what formats JGrass supports,  
Oh  to have more time :).  So in light of this news I think we can  
expect ECW support thanks to JGrass sooner than  gdal wrapper.

> Other two questions:
> - is there some thought about a usermanagement in udig? Something  
> like:
> I have more than a user that is doing simulations with udig and he  
> needs
> to have to login so that the system can keep track of who is doing  
> what.

We have no had too much need as of yet.  We do have support for SSL  
so that a dialog will open when trying to connect to a server with  
SSL.  We can discuss how to do this tomorrow.


> - I see it is possible to color features by classes. In the style  
> wizard
> in the combobox there are max only 12 possible classes. Why is that
> limited to 12?

This is not a requirement.  Currently the color schemes have a  
maximum of 12 colors.  However it is easy to add one that is a color  
range and can have a large number of colors.  The colors that are  
used right now were the results of the color brewer study so they are  
colors that work together well.

With the current set if there are more than 12 groups in the data  
then multiple groups will be assigned to a color.

Jesse