Hi Andrea I am with you, the first target is to be compliant to the specifications. WPS would be a clean solution.
@Paul, we are working on an Open Source project, if you feel ready I want to invite you to contribute (I will try to assist), otherwise I cannot help here. Christian Zitat von Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:30 AM, <christian.muel...@nvoe.at> wrote: >> Hi Andrea >> >> The pregenralized feature stuff is intended to reduce calculations at >> runtime. The idea is comparable to image pyramids. >> >> The concept works well rendering images using WMS in geoserver. But what >> about clients fetching the vector data and doing the rendering for >> themselves ?. I can remember a project using a Java applet and doing the >> same logic, having "pyramids" of vector data and deciding which >> generalization level to use. The result was a big performance improvement. I >> did not use WFS, it was a proprietary solution, but the idea was the same. >> >> Since I am not involved in the WFS modules, I have no concrete idea, but do >> you see a possibility to offer this feature for WFS and how to implement it. > > The OGC compliant solution is to improve the Simplify WPS process to leverage > the pre-generalized hints. > > If we are going to allow transparent data transformations in WFS why > limit ourselfs > to simplification? What's stopping us from needing something else, > like buffering, > or aggregation, bounding box extraction? > > As I said I'm not saying no, but imho this needs a proposal and a > direction, because > once we say yes to this other hacks to handle the remaining > deficiencies of WFS will surely > follow > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Ing. Andrea Aime > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Tech lead > > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584 962313 > fax: +39 0584 962313 > mob: +39 339 8844549 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
