[Qgis-developer] FOSS4G code sprint idea: improving SLD export and GeoServer compatibility

[Luigi Pirelli]

Hi Richard and Andrea, I'm really interested, but unfortunately (or
fortunately... a new baby arriving) I'll not be present in Bonn, but
I'm interested to give support remotely :)

cheers
Luigi Pirelli

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On 28 June 2016 at 22:39, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> On 28-06-16 19:42, Andrea Aime wrote:
>> Hi,
>> at FOSS4G Bonn we'll have a bunch of QGis and GeoServer developers
>> participating at the code sprint, I would like to leverage the
>> co-precence and propose a "cross-project"
>> work idea, that is, to improve the chance that a style exported from
>> QGis can be
>> successfully imported and rendered in GeoServer.
>>
>> On one side, I have had reports from GeoServer users showing documents
>> that were not valid XML (un-balanced tags)
>> or not schema compliant, like CSSProperty values containing a Filter
>> instead of an Expression... I don't know
>> if these issues are still present in the latest version of QGis, as you
>> imagine users tend to use a large variety of software versions,
>> some of which pretty old, but I see some open ticket in the QGis tracker
>> regarding the SLD export, so there might
>> be some work to do there.
>>
>> On the other side, GeoServer has a preference for SLD 1.0, and SE 1.1
>> support definitely needs improvement,
>> at the same time and it could learn to use some of the QGis own extensions.
>> For example, the other day I've seen on stackexchange a export with a
>> "diamond" WellKnownName that is not part
>> of SE, but which would be trivial to add support for in GeoServer.
>>
>> There are also other functionalities, like compositing, that are present
>> in both projects, but not in SE, having a way to export
>> them would also be good.
>>
>> So I'd like to see if there is any QGis developer that would like to
>> work side by side
>> with me to bring the two projects a little bit closer in this respect.
>> I'll be at the code sprint after the conference, Saturday and Sunday.
>> Having someone contributing projects with some complex symbology to test
>> against would
>> also be a great way to keep the exercise interesting.
>>
>> Anyone interested? :-)
>
> o/
>
> Probably also Luigi and others working on Geoserver-plugin will be
> interested.
>
> Though not a cpp dev, I'll do what I can, OR try to find people who can
> help from our community...
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
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