Re: [udig-devel] Google or Bing Example

[andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the right choices have been made. The code is in an open repo.
Given how difficult to get things into udig, I would not be sure that
an integration in core would be so quick (not that I want to break the
fun, I speak out of my own experience).
Consider also that soon we will migrate to git (will we?), so I would
not move the code from where it is now.
The code has always been there and once a week there has been a report
on list. I think that was enough for showing to the community what was
going on.

Andrea

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Craig Taverner <craig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Seems we did not perhaps make the best choices for the udig community
> visibility. We focused on what was practical for us. Since Davide is
> stabilizing the code+docs now, perhaps after that is a good time to publish
> it into udig SVN also? We will keep github in place since the SVN is seen
> just as another branch. I presume the SVN code will become the 'official
> branch', especially if the community take interest in it.
> But for the geotools and the neo4j parts, we need further discussion and
> thought. We kept that all in the one github project partly because it was
> not obvious how to split it in the first place. Perhaps we can have a
> discussion with the right people at foss4g? Or should the decision be taken
> earlier?
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> I see.
>> For the work to be picked up by geotools we need to arrange to place it
>> into the geotools as an unsupported module (anything else would go stale
>> through lack of use, nightly builds etc...).  I was not really going to look
>> at David's code until it was in the udig community svn folder.
>> We have not (yet?) updated our polices with respect to git - although
>> Jesse has a change proposal we can now look at now that 1.2.0 is out of the
>> way.
>> Jody
>> On 09/08/2010, at 8:20 PM, Craig Taverner wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jody,
>> Please clarify. Very little time before what?
>> For the GSoC work, Davide's code has been on github for a long time now,
>> so I think the visibility of that should be OK. Perhaps we have failed to
>> mention the location of the code in the reports?
>>   http://github.com/svzdvd/net.refractions.udig.catalog.neo4j
>> It is missing documentation, but Davide is working on that this week. By
>> the end of the week we should have docs for the complete stack :-)
>> For my own work, my deadline is only a decent presentation of graph
>> databases in GIS for the FOSS4G. My code is built on Davide's earlier work,
>> also on github at http://github.com/neo4j/neo4j-spatial. This project also
>> contains part of Davide's work, including the geotools parts.
>>
>> We would like to discuss how best to split the code three ways for the
>> three open source projects they contribute to, but want to get everything
>> working solidly first. I think the uDig part does not need much, but the
>> neo4j-spatial part could be contributed, partially, to geotools itself.
>> Cheers, Craig
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Craig this is a reminder to you in your own mentoring endeavours; there
>>> is very little time left to get code in front of the udig community (and in
>>> front of the geotools community where they have actually been asking for
>>> it).
>>> Thanks Jesse I would really like to see the tile client work in general
>>> circulation. Do you think it could be something for the udig update site?
>>> Jody
>>> On 09/08/2010, at 6:12 PM, Jesse Eichar wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi currently the project is in a GIT repository.  I should be able to
>>> bring it into uDig in fairly short order.
>>> http://github.com/tosa/wmt
>>> Jesse
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Lenny Sorey <lsorey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Jody,
>>>>
>>>> Nope, don't want to run into any license issues. : )
>>>>
>>>> Would be interested in taking a look at the tile servers project.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your response.
>>>>
>>>> Lenny
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Jesse had some examples of using other tile servers (tileserver, yahoo,
>>>>> etc...) done by  a google summer of code student last year. It is my hope
>>>>> that this makes its way into the project.
>>>>>
>>>>> With respect to google - use of their imagery outside of a browser runs
>>>>> counter to their licence agreement. There is a wide range of projects
>>>>> (JScience for example) that needed to pull their project after adding
>>>>> support for this feature. (It takes a couple days to do).
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently google changed some of their license agreements; but I am
>>>>> unaware if this lifts the browser/javascript restriction.  QGis has recently
>>>>> added this feature as a plugin but I only see descriptions of it in Japanese
>>>>> - and I expect they will be in legal trouble shortly.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have thought of a way to do it; run a javascript engine and use the
>>>>> google javascript api to access the images - however that seems a bit
>>>>> dishonest.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jody
>>>>>
>>>>> On 09/08/2010, at 7:53 AM, Lenny Sorey wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > I am guessing this has been asked before but I have not been able to
>>>>> > find an answer.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I would like to use either Google Maps or Bing geo referenced based
>>>>> > map
>>>>> > where I can overlay my shape files against.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Creating the shape files is not problem but I will need to reference
>>>>> > many different
>>>>> > either Google Maps or Bing Maps so I guess I will need some sort of
>>>>> > form that I can
>>>>> > enter bounding boxes info for either the Google Map or Bing look up.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks for any suggestions.
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