[Qgis-developer] Integrating OSSIM with QGIS

[Peter Borissow]

Hi Tim-
   We are playing with 1.6. We'll download the 1.7 branch right away. I agree, use of gdal should be abstracted away into a gdal provider. Sounds like we would create an OSSIM provider.

And yes, we want to create/execute OSSIM image chains directly in QGIS! 

Thanks,
Peter



-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Sutton [mailto:lists at linfiniti.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:03 PM
To: Pirmin Kalberer
Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org; Peter Borissow; qgis-ossim at lists.sourceforge.net; Mingjie Su; Harsh Govind
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Integrating OSSIM with QGIS

Hi Peter

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>> > We started our investigation late last week. We have a debug version
>> > of QGIS up and running in Visual Studio 10 (64 bit) using QT 4.7.3. We
>> > have since discovered how integral GDAL is to QGIS. Undaunted, we
>> > added a some temporary hacks to bypass GDAL and we're now getting
>> > images to display via OSSIM! For us, this is a huge first step and we
>> > are seriously considering pressing ahead.

What version are you building against? Since the 1.7 branch and in
current master branch, Radim Blazek has done a great overhaul to cater
for proper raster providers. That means you should not find QGIS is
heavily intertwined with GDAL - the use of gdal should be abstracted
away into the gdal provider, and you should be able to implement ossim
raster support as a clean separate provider.

I would also really love to see OSSIM support in QGIS (and maybe some
of those nice processing chains making their way into QGIS :-).

Regards

Tim

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