[Qgis-developer] WCS-T server

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi John

Does the WCS-T service need functionality from the QGIS API (raster 
layer, raster provider, ...)? If not, it could also be an option to 
build the WCS service directly on top of the GDAL library.

QGIS (wms) server could certainly serve as an inspiration on how to 
implement other geospatial web services on top of the QGIS API. 
Code-wise, I don't think the WCS server can use many parts of the wms 
server. It would probably go into its own executable (qgis_wcs.fcgi or 
similar), be linked to qgis_core and use functions from libfcgi for 
communication with the webserver.


Regards,
Marco

On 09.01.2012 11:59, John Donovan wrote:
> It's early days yet, but there might be a requirement for me to
> develop a Web Coverage Service server with transaction support. I
> thought about developing one from scratch, then I remembered QGIS's
> WMS server, and I thought I could build on that.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts/experience/words of encouragement? The
> only WCS-T server out there that I can find is Rasdaman which is the
> reference implementation.
>
> -John
>


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