[gdal-dev] GDAL block cache question

[Antonio Valentino]

Il giorno Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:23:16 -0400
"Luke Roth" <roth.luke at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Antonio,
> 
> A lot of questions, let's see ... yes, it's a c++ application, using

:) I'm very curious because I started a similar project 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsdview/
http://gsdview.sourceforge.net/

but unfortunately it is stopped now :(

> wxWidgets for the GUI.  While I'm developing in Windows, the only
> dependencies so far are wxWidgets and GDAL, so it should cross-compile
> on Linux pretty easily.  As for the target imagery, I'm looking at
> pretty large aerial and satellite images (DOQQs, MODIS tiles), which

... so mainly optical sensors

> is why I'm not simply loading the whole image into memory.  Vector

this the main reason I started my project

> data viewing will also be supported, but it's not intended to be a
> full-fledged GIS package.  It's unlikely that I'll be able to open
> source the entire application, but I am thinking of releasing some of
> the lower-level components.  I know there are already a lot of

OK I'm not an expert of wxWidgets but if you think I can help you
testing your components on Linux x86_64

> open-source GIS packages out there (QGIS, MapWindow, uDig, GRASS,
> etc.) but none of them completely suit the purposes of the project
> that I'm working on, and it would take longer to modify them to suit
> my (fairly simple) needs than to write one from scratch.
> 
> Luke
> 
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Antonio Valentino
> <antonio.valentino at tiscali.it> wrote:
> > Il giorno Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:02:23 -0400
> > "Luke Roth" <roth.luke at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> >> Hi everybody,
> >>
> >> I've been working on writing an image viewer using GDAL, and I'd
> >> like
> >
> > Hi Luke,
> > unfortunately I don't have an answer for you but I would like to ask
> > you some more about the application you are working on.
> > It seems to me it is written in C++, is it?
> > Which is the target platform?
> > Which GUI toolkit are you going to use?
> > Will it be open source?
> > Do you have in mind a particular target about data (optical/SAR
> > images, raster/vector data)?
> > What about meta-data and geographic info?

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Antonio Valentino