[gdal-dev] Google SoC idea...

[Mateusz Loskot]

Yann Chemin wrote:
> could it be possible to make konqueror/dolphin for example, automatically
> create a thumbnail of RS images and GIS covers through GDAL?

 From technical point of view, I don't see any problems. You can
use GDAL as any other imaging library to generate thumbnails of image 
content, translate to png/jpeg buffers as formats that can be rendered 
by Konqueror.

The only question is about usability of such thumbnail
preview for GIS imagery. Though, if you accept that for some 
datasets/formats preview won't make much sense, then you are fine.

By the way, in Total Commander application there is a nice idea of 
listeners (viewers) for various data formats (you select file/data and 
press F3 to get fast view of data content).
Here is example of such plugin for vector data:

http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/GisLister.html

I don't know KDE very well, but perhaps Konqueror (or Krusader) supports
similar plugins. If it does, what about implementing listener for 
GDAL/OGR data formats instead of datasets thumbnailing?

Greetings
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net