[OSGeo-Discuss] Open File Formats and Proprietary Algorithms

[Landon Blake]

MPG:

When you say "effort" do you mean some sort of library to support JP2
geo side of things?

What programming language would you be most interested in? C++?

Landon
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
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It would not be a good SoC thing, due to the level of expertise and time
required.

I (LizardTech) would likely be willing to contribute to such an effort.

-mpg


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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Fawcett, David
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I realize that there are likely not a large number of people who have
the expertise and experience to write this kind of code.  

Is this a project that should be shopped around for funding?  Google
Summer of Code?  A grant from our ~benevolent overlord Google?  Some
other foundation or org interested in open data formats?  

David.
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
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> Do you know why there hasn't been a broader adoption of JP2?

Not through lack of trying on my part :-)

I think the two biggest reasons are:

(1) The algorithms for handling large images in memory really are rocket
science, and no one in the FOSS community has gotten the "itch"
sufficiently bad enough to go and do the work needed inside the existing
open source packages.  Hopefully someday someone will.


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