Very interesting. I was looking for such an initiative a while back:
http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/opensdi/2006-March/000344.html Best regards, Bart > Thanks. To provide some background, my current work involves using uDig > as renderer and catalog platform for spatially-enhanced JCR repository. > uDig will also be used for GIS reporting based on BIRT. Geographical > maps within BIRT will be analogous to charts (connected to data series > and sources). > > For a first milestone, we'll try reporting from server-side only, so > that report preview in BIRT is taken from the server. Ultimately, it > should be possible to e.g. compose a report which would take server-side > map and join it to local CSV file, so that some buildings on the map > would be labeled according to this file. > > We intend to contribute at least a part of this back to uDig project, > but we're only started and have no definite plan yet. So far, I'm quite > happy just to see some shapefiles rendered with uDig within BIRT report ;) > > BTW, just make D stand for Distributed and you don't even have to change > the name :) > > Jesse Eichar wrote: >> Good stuff! I give you 10 point for creativity. uDig as a servlet >> does that mean we have to change the name? >> >> Seriously I think this is great. I will do what I can to support your >> work. Any suggestion you have that will make it better for servers >> please make a JIRA and we will start a thread there. >> >> WRT the dependency/Null pointer issue. I will comment on the Jira task. >> >> Jesse >> >> On 4-Aug-06, at 12:12 PM, Aleksander Bandelj wrote: >> >>> I think uDig and technologies it builds on constitute a really nice >>> platform for client and server side GIS, so I started experimenting >>> with server part. So far, I am able to run uDig rendering headless >>> inside Eclipse Equinox OSGI container. It requires no modifications >>> to uDig and is also reasonably easy for those familiar with Eclipse >>> PDE. You need eclipse 3.2 and plugins from equinox incubator: > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
