Awesome, once again i'm surprised in a good way by whats possible in gs and its friends.
it looks like the rendering side is very advanced here, but on the other side i really want to do as little pre-processing as possible, as our data is volatile, hence using the netcdf directly by some method (perhaps using the wms 3 time filters ?) is interesting, i will follow up on this with some of you. i know that gdal supports netcdf to some degree, but i'm not sure if geoserver can be configured to render a particular variable / dimension slice using that. cheers for all your excellent advice -i Le 26/03/2011 9:32 AM, Andrea Aime a écrit : > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Luca Morandini<lmorand...@ieee.org> wrote: >> Oops, it appears I made a sily question... actually, I failed to notice >> the<<pipe >> a process (yes, a WPS one) inside the SLD>> sentence, which means it is >> *very* >> pluggable. >> >> This mechanism takes the separation of content from presentation to a new >> level, >> which I like immensely... but I cannot help thinking that, performance-wise, >> the >> WPS overhead needed for every GetMap call is not very reassuring. >> >> Anyway, you're the expert on GS performance here. > Indeed the processes you've seen have been fine tuned to work at best > performance, > you cannot take a random WPS process and pretend it will be worthy of usage in > a on the fly rendering transformation. > > Then again, you have a choice: > - preprocess the data, taking the extra effort of orchestrating the > data ingestion, > transformation in the various representations needed, publishing of > the various > layers in GS with styles and all, and long term storage of that somewhat > redundant data or > - on the fly transformation, which also allows you to pass dynamically the > transformation params from the client (see sld param substitution, another > custom GS extension), where you just register one layer, and you have to > be very careful at optimizing the transformation processes > > For the specific case we developed this feature for the choice was a no > brainer, > when you have 100k layers and the viewer wants to specify the isoline levels > inside the client, for that specific session only, the first approach just > does > not really work well > > Cheers > Andrea > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
