<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Peter<div><br></div><div>I would be tempted to use the relatively new OssimSingleImageChain </div><div>as the basis for the QGisOssimImageProvider as it seems to map </div><div>relatively well to Radim's Raster Provider abstaction</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Norman</div><div><br><div><div>On May 25, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Peter Borissow wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Tim-<br> We are playing with 1.6. We'll download the 1.7 branch right away. I agree, use of gdal should be abstracted away into a gdal provider. Sounds like we would create an OSSIM provider.<br><br>And yes, we want to create/execute OSSIM image chains directly in QGIS! <br><br>Thanks,<br>Peter<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Tim Sutton [mailto:lists@linfiniti.com] <br>Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:03 PM<br>To: Pirmin Kalberer<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>; Peter Borissow; <a href="mailto:qgis-ossim@lists.sourceforge.net">qgis-ossim@lists.sourceforge.net</a>; Mingjie Su; Harsh Govind<br>Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Integrating OSSIM with QGIS<br><br>Hi Peter<br><br>8<-------------------snip----------------------<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">We started our investigation late last week. We have a debug version<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">of QGIS up and running in Visual Studio 10 (64 bit) using QT 4.7.3. We<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">have since discovered how integral GDAL is to QGIS. Undaunted, we<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">added a some temporary hacks to bypass GDAL and we're now getting<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">images to display via OSSIM! For us, this is a huge first step and we<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">are seriously considering pressing ahead.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>What version are you building against? Since the 1.7 branch and in<br>current master branch, Radim Blazek has done a great overhaul to cater<br>for proper raster providers. That means you should not find QGIS is<br>heavily intertwined with GDAL - the use of gdal should be abstracted<br>away into the gdal provider, and you should be able to implement ossim<br>raster support as a clean separate provider.<br><br>I would also really love to see OSSIM support in QGIS (and maybe some<br>of those nice processing chains making their way into QGIS :-).<br><br>Regards<br><br>Tim<br><br>8<-------------------snip----------------------<br>-- <br>Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager)<br>==============================================<br>Please do not email me off-list with technical<br>support questions. Using the lists will gain<br>more exposure for your issues and the knowledge<br>surrounding your issue will be shared with all.<br><br>Visit <a href="http://linfiniti.com">http://linfiniti.com</a> to find out about:<br> * QGIS programming and support services<br> * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans<br> * FOSS Consulting Services<br>Skype: timlinux<br>Irc: timlinux on #qgis at <a href="http://freenode.net">freenode.net</a><br>==============================================<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security.<br>With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, <br>you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection.<br>Download your free trial now. <br><a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1">http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>QGIS-OSSIM mailing list<br>QGIS-OSSIM@lists.sourceforge.net<br>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qgis-ossim<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>