[Live-demo] Provide .fix files for all Shapefiles

Tue Aug 10 14:53:00 EDT 2010

Hi Brian

Thanks for your quick reply.

 > to be clear...
 > I am in favor of applications that want a .fix file, to generate them
 > *not* to change the source repository somehow
Not so easy when the folder is read-only. ;-)

 >Can you use a PostGIS data source for AS and GP ?
These changes are not for AS or GP. AtlasStlyer and Geopublisher are 
fixed and have no problems with the r/o Shapefiles anymore.
This is to ensure that more widespread uDig has no problems with the 
Natural Earth Shapefiles. uDig uses the same version of Geotools as GP 
and AS.

 >Natural Earth is already there and ready to go
I think we were missunderstanding. The workflow would stay the same: The 
original and unchanged Natural Earth is downloaded and unzipped as it is 
done now - just after that .fix files would be generated next to the 
.shp files.

Think of it as generating thumbnails in imagefolders. For a live DVD one 
would do it after downloading the images, but before the filesystem goes 
read-only.

 >BUT the deadline for changes to the LiveDVD is long gone..
 >Cameron is running the schedule, but my understanding
 >is that there is no more time..
That is totally true. So i try not to slow down the process. If the .fix 
is not needed, lets not do it.

Is it really needed with latest uDig? I guess Jody will reply tomorrow. 
I will go to bed now.

Keep up the good work guys.. it's in every project that the last days 
get a bit busier :-) ... In a month you all can hold the nice DVD and be 
very proud of it!

Greetings,
Steve

On 10.08.2010 18:45, Brian Hamlin wrote:
>
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
>> The naturalearth data shapefiles are loaded by bin/loadgisdata.sh
>>
>> It is loaded from the naturalearth website directly.
>>
>> I'm open to you adding .fix files if you think it is easy enough to
>> achieve.
>>
>
> to be clear...
> I am in favor of applications that want a .fix file, to generate them
> *not* to change the source repository somehow
> or create our own mirror "plus" repository
>
> maybe that is not what you want to do, and we are already in alignment
>
> the master data source, that is the Natural Earth site
> is going to be very widely relied upon
> IMO we would do better to write scripts that use it exactly as it is
> and then add any additional features locally
>
> best regards
> -Brian
>
>
>> On 10/08/10 21:10, Stefan A. Tzeggai wrote:
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>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have installed the rc5 to my HDD and started investigating the
>>> problems reported for AtlasStyler and Geopublisher. This is what
>>> happens:
>>>
>>> The natural earth shapes don't have .fix spatial indexes. AtlasStyler
>>> tries to create them on-the-fly and gets a permission exception.
>>>
>>> I will write a fix, so that that will not be a problem anymore, but
>>> maybe we should anyways add .fix files to all Shapefiles on the DVD.
>>>
>>> .fix files are supported by Geotools, so uDig, Geoserver,
>>> Geopublisher and AtlasStyler (and probably more) would profit
>>> performance-wise.
>>>
>>> The data dir is not in the svn.. Tell me where it is, and i can provide
>>> .fix files for all shapefiles.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Steve
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