[OSGeo-Discuss] New AcidMaps with Geoserver plugin

[Gabriel Roldán]

Just to make it clear, as I've just read Cameron's reply, I'm not
proposing to make AcidMaps' core part of geoserver, I love it being a
separate project, but just contributing the GeoServer plugin.

Cheers,
Gabriel

On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 02:57 -0300, Gabriel Roldán wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > --
> > Mauricio Miranda
> > Chief Development Officer
> > http://www.xoomcode.com
> > 
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