[OSGeo-Discuss] New AcidMaps with Geoserver plugin

[Gabriel Roldán]

Hey Mauricio,

just now had time to look deeper into the project. The GeoServer plugin
looks really great. Reusing the WMS "infrastructure" in such a clever
way is just neat, and being able to use any point layer as data source
rocks.

Question: would it work with multi-point layers too?

I would like to push the plugin into GeoServer's svn as a community
module, if you guys are up to it, and get you commit access on that
module. We could even arrange to have the native libraries installed on
the hudson server and get it into continuous integration once it
upgrades to "extension" (i.e. supported and documented).

We could even set up a couple integrated demos. I think there should be
a lot of people interested on it and perhaps having it as an official
GeoServer extension would give it a bit more of exposure to users, which
could be of interest to you.

I for instance already have a use case in mind which is creating heat
maps out of the Suite's monitoring plugin database.

Ok, too much of a rant so far. Congratulations on the project again!

Chau loco,
Gabriel.

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 18:54 -0300, Mauricio Miranda wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> We finally released the new version of AcidMaps [1] with a great change, it works as a Geoserver plugin.
> 
> That means you can use your own configured WMS layers to build Heatmaps, Isolines and other interpolated maps ON THE FLY!
> 
> The team has been working hard and we made a complete rewrite of the core, optimizing the process to make them faster and more accurate.
> 
> Behind that, we build the Geoserver plugin to make AcidMaps easier to use and more "OGC like".
> 
> Caution! The plugin depends on Geoserver 2.1 (Beta release). The previous releases are not yet supported.
> 
> For who doesn't know about AcidMaps:
> 
> * AcidMaps is an open source library that generates interpolated images from a set of valued points in real time.
> 
> * It's can be used to generate advanced visualizations with point datasets: (e.g.: sales, temperature, atmospheric pressure, population, etc...)
> 
> You can see a full demo [2] built using Flex/OpenScales where you can play with the parameters to see different results. 
> 
> It is deployed in our own local server and it could get stuck quickly, so please be patient...
> 
> If you want to give it a try with you own data, take a look to the Quick Start instructions [3], it is really simple!
> 
> There's a reference doc [4] where you can get more details.
> 
> Please, let us know your opinion because it's still in beta and your experience will be very helpful.
> 
> [1] http://acidmaps.org
> [2] http://acidmaps.org/flex/index.html
> [3] https://github.com/XoomCode/AcidMaps/
> [4] https://github.com/XoomCode/AcidMaps/wiki
> 
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> Chief Development Officer
> http://www.xoomcode.com
> 
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