[Qgis-developer] Integrating OSSIM with QGIS

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Peter Borissow
<Borissow.Peter at geoeye.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Just in case I wasnt clear in my post, I mean that gdal stuff *is*
abstracted away into its own provider in 1.7 and trunk.

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

Cool can't wait!

regards

Tim

>
> 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
>
> 8<-------------------snip----------------------
>
>>> > 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
>
> 8<-------------------snip----------------------
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