[Live-demo] Request for - Live GIS Add Project (Cesium)
Angelos Tzotsos
gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 08:25:07 PST 2014
+1
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Johan Van de Wauw <
johan.vandewauw at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Cameron Shorter <
> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Bala and Patrick,
>> I'm delighted to see Cesium applying to join OSGeo-Live. I've been
>> hearing great things about Cesium, and with regards to your project
>> description below, you have addressed all the requirements that are
>> important for OSGeo-Live applications. I have discussed including Cesium
>> with others in prior OSGeo-Live meetings and have had positive responses
>> from other members of the OSGeo-Live team as well.
>>
>> OSGeo-Live community, I raise the motion that OSGeo-Live should be
>> included on our next OSGeoLive 8.5 release (assuming docs and install
>> work). If there are no -1 within 48 hours, then consider this a formal
>> acceptance of the project into OSGeo-Live.
>>
>> +1 from me.
>>
>>
>> On 20/12/2014 6:59 pm, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote:
>>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> We would like to add the project Cesium to the OSGeoLive Disk. We have
>> answered all the questions which are needed as per the link
>> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply>. I am in the process
>> of writing a script to get Cesium installed on a debian machine which I
>> will share once it is done. I will also put together a project overview
>> and a quick start guide.
>>
>> Let me and Patrick know if we are missing something.
>>
>> - Please describe your application.
>> - What is its name?
>> - Cesium
>> - What is the home page URL?
>> - http://cesiumjs.org/
>> - Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
>> - Apache 2.0 license
>> - What does the application do and how does it add value to the
>> GeoSpatial stack of software?
>> - Cesium is a JavaScript library for creating 3D globes and 2D
>> maps in a web browser without a plugin. It uses WebGL for
>> hardware-accelerated graphics, and is cross-platform, cross-browser, and
>> tuned for dynamic-data visualization. Cesium is open source under the
>> Apache 2.0 license. It is free for commercial and non-commercial use.
>> - Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which versions
>> of the standards? Client or server? You may wish to add comments about how
>> standards are used.
>> - WMS and WMTS. KML is expected in early 2015.
>> - What language is it written in?
>> - JavaScript
>> - Which version of the application should be included in the next
>> OSGeo-Live release?
>> - Version 1.4 http://cesiumjs.org/downloads.html
>>
>>
>> - Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user
>> finds a bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of all other
>> OSGeo-Live applications as well. (We pay most attention to the following
>> answers):
>> - If risk adverse organisations have deployed your application
>> into production, it would imply that these organisations have verified the
>> stability of your software. Has the application been rolled out to
>> production into risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations? Please mention
>> some of these organisations?
>> - Cesium is widely used in government agencies and has been used
>> in NORAD Tracks Santa since 2012, which receives about 20 million unique
>> visitors each December.
>> - Open HUB <https://www.openhub.net/> provides metrics to help
>> assess the health of a project. Eg:
>> http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html Could
>> you please ensure that your project is registered with Open HUB, and Open
>> HUB has been updated to reference the correct code repository(s) for your
>> project. What is the Open HUB URL for your project?
>> - https://www.openhub.net/p/cesiumjs
>> - What is the size of the user community? You can often answer
>> this by mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email list?
>> - The forum receives 250-300 posts per month, and rising.
>> - What is the size of your developer community?
>> - There have been 40 total contributors with about five currently
>> very active. See
>> https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md
>> - Do you have a bug free, stable release?
>> - The latest version 1.4
>> - Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone
>> through.
>> - Cesium has 82K lines of runtime code and 78K lines of unit tests
>> with 93% code coverage.
>> - How long has the project has had mature code.
>> - Cesium 1.0 was released on August 1, 2014.
>>
>>
>> - OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather
>> than libraries. Does the application have a user interface (possibly a
>> command line interface) that a user can interact with? (We do make an
>> exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will include Project Overviews
>> for these libraries, even if they don't have a user interface.)
>> - Here we write JavaScript to be rendered on the browser.
>>
>>
>> - We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which
>> are presented at FOSS4G <http://foss4g.org> conferences. If your
>> project is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has been selected to be
>> presented at FOSS4G, then please mention it.
>>
>>
>> - We presented at FOSS4G 2014 and FOSS4G NA 2013. We were also
>> selected to present at FOSS4G NA 2015.
>> - See http://cesiumjs.org/publications.html
>>
>>
>> - With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core
>> packagers do not have the time to liaise with every single project email
>> list for each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to
>> take responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and the project's
>> communities. This volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install
>> scripts and English documentation are updated by someone for each
>> OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the installed application and Quickstart
>> documentation works as expected on release candidate releases of
>> OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison person.
>> - Balasubramaniam Natarajan and Patrick Cozzi.
>>
>>
>> - OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
>> 1. Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
>> 2. Install .deb files from a PPA
>> 3. Write a custom install script
>>
>> Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.
>> We plan to do it with custom install script.
>>
>> - OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run
>> in 512 Meg of RAM?
>> - (We will get back on this point). In my test I ran Cesium on a
>> gui less virtualbox guest and accessed it from another computer via browser
>> which had capability for rendering WebGL on browser and it worked fine.
>>
>>
>> - How much disk space will be required to install the application and
>> a suitable example application?
>> - Less than a 100 MB, I am really overstating this it could be
>> even under 50MB.
>>
>>
>> - We aim to reduce disk space by having all applications make use of
>> a common dataset. We encourage applications to make use of the example
>> datasets already installed:
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets If
>> another dataset would be more appropriate, please discuss here. Is it
>> appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets which may already be included
>> in the standard release.
>>
>> - Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available
>> under a CC By <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> and a
>> Quickstart available under a CC By-SA
>> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/> license. (You may
>> release under a second license as well). Will you produce this?
>> - We will produce a project overview and a quick start guide.
>>
>>
>> - In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac installers for
>> some applications. It is likely we won't have space for these in future
>> releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing to include
>> Windows and/or Mac installers?
>> - Not applicable for our project as it runs on the browser.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Balasubramaniam Natarajan
>> (Address me as Bala)
>> http://blog.etutorshop.com
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cameron Shorter,
>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>> LISAsoft
>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>>
>> P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099
>>
>>
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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