[udig-devel] uDig Development / Raster file format support

[jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Quoting Paul Ramsey <pramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Well, one place that can always use work is image format support. There
> are some folks in GeoTools land working on GeoTIFF, and we have some
> simple world-file support for ordinary formats, but things like ECW or
> LAN are unsupported at the moment. Or if you are particularly
> adventurous, raster-in-SDE support.

You are quite right that any geotools development helps the uDig project 
greatly. And support for more raster data sources are allways appricated.

> Another place would be some raster manipulation plugins, but you might
> want to wait a little while before starting that, for Jody and co. to
> formalize their operations API, and to get the uDig skeleton together
> (so you can see your results).

Geotools already contains some support for raster (that is GridCoverage) 
manipulations - backed by JAI where possible. We have been working on creating 
a similar opperations API for Feature data (along with Peter Barrs from social 
change).

Thanks for the good ideas Paul/Matt.

Jody
 
> Matt Revelle wrote:
> 
> > Hi Paul,
> > Well I have experience in dealing with image processing in the
> > geospatial realm, so I'll count that as an interest.  Not sure what sort
> > of raster data uDig will support in the end, did a little document
> > searching but nothing extensive.  Anything that you guys can think of
> > that's off the critical path, just let me know.  May end up that I don't
> > have a choice in the matter at all.  <G>
> > Matt
> >
> > On Aug 2, 2004, at 19:28, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Matt,
> >> How you can help depends on where your development interests lie. The
> >> process is open, the mailing list is open, the SVN server is actually
> >> the same SVN server as geotools. udig.refractions.net for background.
> >> The key is, since development is moving very fast, with a fulltime
> >> team of four, picking a development area that is off of the critical
> >> path but still useful!
> >> What are your development interests?
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> Matt Revelle wrote:
> >>
> >>> Are you guys allowing for open development with uDig?  I'd like to
> >>> help out in some of my free time, but unsure of where to start.
> >>> Matt Revelle