[udig-devel] RE:JGrass and uDig and Geoserver

[Andrea Aime]

Andrea Antonello ha scritto:
> Hi Randy,
...
>> I'm thinking about the OGC Grid coverage spec with its 
>> 2.5 GP_GridAnalysis (optional)
>> 3.1.5 GP_GridCoverageProcessor
>> 3.1.8.1 GP_Operation (optional)
>>
>> 	JGrass contains a wealth of raster operations! Could these become
>> part of grid coverage (WCS) GP_GridAnaylsis and GP_Operations in the
>> Geoserver roadmap? 
> 
> Don't know about geoserver plans, but with JGrass we wanted at some
> point create the possibility to follow the WPS standard, which I thought
> to be what you are talking about? I'm a bit confused.

WPS-C, coverage edition :-)
Afaik, GRASS is independently going down this road, but with a more
C-Python centric approach.

>> The possibility of server side chaining on coverage operations is also
>> interesting.
> 
> Yes, the concept of linkable command could make a big sense serverside,
> since also you bypass the creation of temporary maps, which otherwise
> slow down your process.

Indeed.
Ciao
Andrea