Yes, that's one common use case, the other is the before and after use case
with a swipe tool.  You can compare the before and after using a tool that
swipes between the two coverages.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:

> sophia parafina ha scritto:
>
>  What happens if you have 2 or more coverages in the map context?
>>
>
> In general, the others would be drawn with the current method, that
> incurs in a scalability issue (synchronization deep in the java2d
> libraries).
>
> However, my guess is that at most you'll end up piling a group
> of coverages at the bottom of the map context, and add all of the
> vector layers on top of it.
>
> If it is so, we could have the code loop over the layers bottom
> to top and try to use an optimized path as long as the next
> layer is still a coverage.
> I guess, but I'm not sure, that we can perform some fast JAI
> image composition without going down in java2d as long as we
> just need to merge together coverages.
>
> Out of curiosity, what is the common case of mixing multiple
> coverages in a single result?
>
> One that comes to mind for me is depicting a DEM using a colormap
> driven base layer and a aspect layer that is drawn on top of it,
> grayscale with partial transparency, to provide the illusion of
> shadows
>
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
> --
> Andrea Aime
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>
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