Foss4G summary for me

[Jesse Eichar-4]

Hi all,

I am on vacation for a week but I thought I would fire off a quick summary of Foss4G for those who are interested:

• Geotools a plan has been drafted to try to manage the forking that has been taking place in that project (final approval will naturally be a long time coming)
• The Geotools code base is going to be split into a number of small projects
• The Geotools name will be used to describe the set of "Geotools projects"
• The first projects that will be created are:
• Referencing Project
• Metadata Project
• Coverage Project
• Main Project
• The Referencing, Metadata and Coverage project will be maintained by Geomatys and will have a Java 1.6 and Java 1.5 versions
• The "Main" Project will be the current Geotools without the Metadata and Referencing modules.  It will depend on those modules.
• As a result of this there will be 2 Coverage implementations to choose from
• Desktop Clients
• There was an introduction to a new Desktop GIS project.  It is java based and is called OrbisGIS.  Its license is GPL3 do it is a direct competitor to GVSig but not uDig and it is developed by what appears to be an education center in France, IRSTV.
• GVSig and QGis are still very strong.  GVSig has become the official GIS client for Venezuela.
• Geoserver
• GeoServer 1.7 is about to come out it is currently a RC3. 
• There is much talk about the WebProcessing module that Refractions has recently implemented for GeoServer and Geotools
• JGrass
• JGrass has finished being ported from the previous non-uDig framework to the uDig framework.  
• For those who don't know JGrass.  It provides a User interface for running a number of Hydrological operations as well as providing a scripting interface for writing scripts using the hydrological operations as well as all of the Grass API. 
• The hydrological operations are pure Java and if they are all that are required then Grass does not need to be installed.
• The current work on JGrass is to create UI components for more Grass operations and create a Geotools Datastore for Grass Vector data and Grass Raster data so that any Geotools based application can access those types of data.
• BeeGIS
• BeeGIS is a uDig-based solution for mobile collection of data.  
• BeeGis is designed to be run on a laptop or a Tablet PC
• Features include:
• Recieving data from a GPS, rendering it in the map and exporting it to Postgis or shapefiles
• Pinning files and notes to a GPS location.  For example you could attach photos to a location and write some notes about the location.  There are some special features that allow users to annotate images that are attached to a location
• An annotation tool for drawing on a map.  
• Secure W*S
• I talked to 52 North about their software for securing WMS and WFS.  They currently have layer level security and use token based security
• They mentioned another company from Germany, I can't find the name right now, that offers bbox level security.
• As mentioned before Geoserver provides layer level security on all of its services but only with basic authentication currently.
• WPS
• 52 north has had a Web Processing service for some time now.  This year they are attempting to add Coverage Processing to the offerings
• There is a module for Geoserver that adds WebProcessing but it is not part of the official Geoserver and needs to be compiled manually.
• Sextante
• Sextante is now integrated in OpenJump and GVSig.  A uDig plugin will be released shortly as will integration in Talend SDI

Jesse

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[Eric Jarvies-2]

thanks for the summarized update!

eric

On Oct 6, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Jesse Eichar wrote:

Hi all,

I am on vacation for a week but I thought I would fire off a quick summary of Foss4G for those who are interested:

• Geotools a plan has been drafted to try to manage the forking that has been taking place in that project (final approval will naturally be a long time coming)
• The Geotools code base is going to be split into a number of small projects
• The Geotools name will be used to describe the set of "Geotools projects"
• The first projects that will be created are:
• Referencing Project
• Metadata Project
• Coverage Project
• Main Project
• The Referencing, Metadata and Coverage project will be maintained by Geomatys and will have a Java 1.6 and Java 1.5 versions
• The "Main" Project will be the current Geotools without the Metadata and Referencing modules.  It will depend on those modules.
• As a result of this there will be 2 Coverage implementations to choose from
• Desktop Clients
• There was an introduction to a new Desktop GIS project.  It is java based and is called OrbisGIS.  Its license is GPL3 do it is a direct competitor to GVSig but not uDig and it is developed by what appears to be an education center in France, IRSTV.
• GVSig and QGis are still very strong.  GVSig has become the official GIS client for Venezuela.
• Geoserver
• GeoServer 1.7 is about to come out it is currently a RC3. 
• There is much talk about the WebProcessing module that Refractions has recently implemented for GeoServer and Geotools
• JGrass
• JGrass has finished being ported from the previous non-uDig framework to the uDig framework.  
• For those who don't know JGrass.  It provides a User interface for running a number of Hydrological operations as well as providing a scripting interface for writing scripts using the hydrological operations as well as all of the Grass API. 
• The hydrological operations are pure Java and if they are all that are required then Grass does not need to be installed.
• The current work on JGrass is to create UI components for more Grass operations and create a Geotools Datastore for Grass Vector data and Grass Raster data so that any Geotools based application can access those types of data.
• BeeGIS
• BeeGIS is a uDig-based solution for mobile collection of data.  
• BeeGis is designed to be run on a laptop or a Tablet PC
• Features include:
• Recieving data from a GPS, rendering it in the map and exporting it to Postgis or shapefiles
• Pinning files and notes to a GPS location.  For example you could attach photos to a location and write some notes about the location.  There are some special features that allow users to annotate images that are attached to a location
• An annotation tool for drawing on a map.  
• Secure W*S
• I talked to 52 North about their software for securing WMS and WFS.  They currently have layer level security and use token based security
• They mentioned another company from Germany, I can't find the name right now, that offers bbox level security.
• As mentioned before Geoserver provides layer level security on all of its services but only with basic authentication currently.
• WPS
• 52 north has had a Web Processing service for some time now.  This year they are attempting to add Coverage Processing to the offerings
• There is a module for Geoserver that adds WebProcessing but it is not part of the official Geoserver and needs to be compiled manually.
• Sextante
• Sextante is now integrated in OpenJump and GVSig.  A uDig plugin will be released shortly as will integration in Talend SDI

Jesse

_______________________________________________
User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig)
http://udig.refractions.net
http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel

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User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig)
http://udig.refractions.net
http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel

[Jody Garnett]

Jesse Eichar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am on vacation for a week but I thought I would fire off a quick
> summary of Foss4G for those who are interested:
Thanks for the update (this is the only update I have gotten thus far).
You did not mention uDig in the update - how was your workshop?

It sounds like you have a well deserved vacation. We are still ready
with a press release for uDig 1.1.0 - is there any word?
Jody
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[Adrian Custer]

Jesse Eichar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am on vacation for a week but I thought I would fire off a quick
> summary of Foss4G for those who are interested:
>
>
> Geotools a plan has been drafted to try to manage the forking that has
> been taking place in that project (final approval will naturally be a
> long time coming)
> The Geotools code base is going to be split into a number of small
> projects
> The Geotools name will be used to describe the set of "Geotools projects"
> The first projects that will be created are:
> Referencing Project
> Metadata Project
> Coverage Project
> Main Project
> The Referencing, Metadata and Coverage project will be maintained by
> Geomatys and will have a Java 1.6 and Java 1.5 versions
> The "Main" Project will be the current Geotools without the Metadata
> and Referencing modules.  It will depend on those modules.
> As a result of this there will be 2 Coverage implementations to choose
> from

Hey all,

This summary of Geotools happening is not quite right from what I
understand---in general, these were possibilities rather than decisions.
Justin is crafting an email for the geotools-devel list to summarize the
discussion we had, the decisions we did take, and the decisions we could
not take without talking to the full geotools community.

Please note that nothing can change for a month or more until the
referencing layer of geotidy is finished. This leaves lots of time for
discussion and exploration of various solutions.

Also, while we have reached a possible plan for metadata and
referencing, we have not yet devised any plan for the coverage module.
The two coverage module situation may arise down the road but is not yet
a real issue. There *are* already two or three implementations of
coverage input/output classes since we don't yet have a fully general
interface leaving each to craft their own. However, coverage itself
appears still to be shared.

all the best,
--adrian
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[Jesse Eichar-4]

You are correct Adrian.  I meant them as possibilities but it  
definately comes across as if they were decisions.  That is what  
happens when you are in a rush.  Thanks for the correction.

Jesse

On 7-Oct-08, at 7:21 AM, Adrian Custer wrote:

> Jesse Eichar wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am on vacation for a week but I thought I would fire off a quick  
>> summary of Foss4G for those who are interested:
>>
>>
>> Geotools a plan has been drafted to try to manage the forking that  
>> has been taking place in that project (final approval will  
>> naturally be a long time coming)
>> The Geotools code base is going to be split into a number of small  
>> projects
>> The Geotools name will be used to describe the set of "Geotools  
>> projects"
>> The first projects that will be created are:
>> Referencing Project
>> Metadata Project
>> Coverage Project
>> Main Project
>> The Referencing, Metadata and Coverage project will be maintained  
>> by Geomatys and will have a Java 1.6 and Java 1.5 versions
>> The "Main" Project will be the current Geotools without the  
>> Metadata and Referencing modules.  It will depend on those modules.
>> As a result of this there will be 2 Coverage implementations to  
>> choose from
> Hey all,
>
> This summary of Geotools happening is not quite right from what I  
> understand---in general, these were possibilities rather than  
> decisions.
> Justin is crafting an email for the geotools-devel list to summarize  
> the discussion we had, the decisions we did take, and the decisions  
> we could not take without talking to the full geotools community.
>
> Please note that nothing can change for a month or more until the  
> referencing layer of geotidy is finished. This leaves lots of time  
> for discussion and exploration of various solutions.
>
> Also, while we have reached a possible plan for metadata and  
> referencing, we have not yet devised any plan for the coverage  
> module. The two coverage module situation may arise down the road  
> but is not yet a real issue. There *are* already two or three  
> implementations of coverage input/output classes since we don't yet  
> have a fully general interface leaving each to craft their own.  
> However, coverage itself appears still to be shared.
>
> all the best,
> --adrian
> _______________________________________________
> User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig)
> http://udig.refractions.net
> http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel

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[Jesse Eichar-4]

The lab went very well.  I have had help getting some corrections to  
certain projections that were incorrect and a few bothersome little  
bugs.

Jesse

On 7-Oct-08, at 1:02 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Jesse Eichar wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am on vacation for a week but I thought I would fire off a quick  
>> summary of Foss4G for those who are interested:
> Thanks for the update (this is the only update I have gotten thus  
> far). You did not mention uDig in the update - how was your workshop?
>
> It sounds like you have a well deserved vacation. We are still ready  
> with a press release for uDig 1.1.0 - is there any word?
> Jody
> _______________________________________________
> User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig)
> http://udig.refractions.net
> http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel

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