<div dir="ltr">Hi Johan,<div><br></div><div style>First of all, thanks for your reply.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Read-only access would be the first step. Actually, as far as we have discussed it with the stakeholder, it might be the only functionality they need.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Regarding the WMS FDO Provider, our customer's data stores are not OGC WMS-based. Therefore, I discarded the option when I read the description of the FDO provider.</div><div style><br>
</div><div style>Related to the ArcSDE GDAL driver you point (thanks for the link, by the way), our first approach was to keep using the FDO architecture. If extending the current ArcSDE FDO Provider meant a lot of effort, we would need to ponder using the C API SDK (or in this case the driver suggested).</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Currently, we have not clarified yet all the details on the raster capabilities that will be required (for example, "is reading raster catalogs a requirement?"). While we are gathering all that information we are also trying to evaluate the amount of effort required for the different options.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Would you suggest going for the GDAL driver rather than completing the ArcSDE FDO Provider? (in case read-only access is the requirement and any non supported features, such as the use of catalogs or NODATA masks, are needed).</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Cheers,</div><div style>Alfredo.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Johan Van de Wauw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johan.vandewauw@gmail.com" target="_blank">johan.vandewauw@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Do you need read-only access or read/write?<div><br></div><div>In case you need read only access, I wonder why you would not use WMS or arcsde gdal driver: <a href="http://www.gdal.org/frmt_sde.html" target="_blank">http://www.gdal.org/frmt_sde.html</a> ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Johan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Alfredo Muela-Romero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alfredo.muela@pds.nl" target="_blank">alfredo.muela@pds.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi everyone,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
My name is Alfredo Muela. I am a software engineer working for a company named <a href="http://www.pds.nl/" target="_blank">PDS</a>.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
We are in need of raster functionality with ArcSDE. One of the ways that we are considering (and the most likely) is to extend the existing FDO provider and releasing our implementation back to the community.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In order to do that, we are assessing the effort that it would take. I have been looking at the existing open source code in the GDAL provider (read-only raster data) trying to extrapolate the work needed in the ArcSDE provider.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you have any suggestions or even a roadmap already defined to achieved that goal, it would appreciate them.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Regards,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Alfredo.</div></div></div>
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