[GRASS-dev] GSOC: ideas

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Thu Mar 31 06:23:10 EDT 2011


On 31/03/11 11:34, Maris Nartiss wrote:
> Hello Moritz.
> As I'm the author of this WMS idea I would like to comment on it.
> It's not about rewrite of r.in.wms but about providing background
> images in GUI for visual analysis and digitizing. Such implementation
> should be as user-friendly as possible and thus it's a good question
> if it should use GDAL or be homebrew. Also wasn't a WMS/WMS-T and
> tiled source support in GDAL depending on compiled-in Xerces-C? Being
> able to import data for analysis would be a nice bonus, still WMS was
> designed for visual use and not for analysis data transfer like WCS
> does.

Isn't that covered by r.external via gdal ?

Moritz



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