[fdo-internals] ArcSDE provider + raster data

[Alfredo Muela-Romero]

Hi Johan,

First of all, thanks for your reply.

Read-only access would be the first step. Actually, as far as we have
discussed it with the stakeholder, it might be the only functionality they
need.

Regarding the WMS FDO Provider, our customer's data stores are not OGC
WMS-based. Therefore, I discarded the option when I read the description of
the FDO provider.

Related to the ArcSDE GDAL driver you point (thanks for the link, by the
way), our first approach was to keep using the FDO architecture. If
extending the current ArcSDE FDO Provider meant a lot of effort, we would
need to ponder using the C API SDK (or in this case the driver suggested).

Currently, we have not clarified yet all the details on the raster
capabilities that will be required (for example, "is reading raster
catalogs a requirement?"). While we are gathering all that information we
are also trying to evaluate the amount of effort required for the different
options.

Would you suggest going for the GDAL driver rather than completing the
ArcSDE FDO Provider? (in case read-only access is the requirement and any
non supported features, such as the use of catalogs or NODATA masks, are
needed).


Cheers,
Alfredo.


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Johan Van de Wauw <
johan.vandewauw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you need read-only access or read/write?
>
> In case you need read only access, I wonder why you would not use WMS or
> arcsde gdal driver:  http://www.gdal.org/frmt_sde.html ?
>
> Johan
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Alfredo Muela-Romero <
> alfredo.muela at pds.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> My name is Alfredo Muela. I am a software engineer working for a company
>> named PDS <http://www.pds.nl/>.
>>
>> We are in need of raster functionality with ArcSDE. One of the ways that
>> we are considering (and the most likely) is to extend the existing FDO
>> provider and releasing our implementation back to the community.
>>
>> In order to do that, we are assessing the effort that it would take. I
>> have been looking at the existing open source code in the GDAL provider
>> (read-only raster data) trying to extrapolate the work needed in the ArcSDE
>> provider.
>>
>> If you have any suggestions or even a roadmap already defined to achieved
>> that goal, it would appreciate them.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alfredo.
>>
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