[ZOO-Discuss] About Intamap and ZOO-Project

[Markus Neteler]

Dear Edzer,

just a quick comment below:

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:11, Edzer Pebesma
<edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de> wrote:
> Dear Venkatesh,
>
> thanks a lot for informing us about your zoo-project; I forwarded it to
> the intamap mailing list, and that of the SWE and processing communities
> of 52N (internal list).
>
> It looks like your solution completely builds on the c stack of tools,
> whereas most what we do here (52North) builds on java web services.
> Extending the OWS to offer R functionality beyond spatial interpolation
> is also on my (OSGEO) research agenda; I would be happy to get in touch
> with your colleague about this. Which WPS implementation do you use?
>
> About a year ago we had a MSc student who wrote his master thesis about
> offering grass functionality through a wps. This seems to overlap
> somehow with your work. Is there interest from your side to get in touch
> with him?

Sure - we are already in contact (also together with Soeren Gebbert who works
on the same topic). Our idea is to let GRASS directly generate the WPS
XML stuff rather than using style sheets or so. I hope that your MSc student
is still available. My vision is that both the C branch and the Java branch
be supported by GRASS in terms of WPS.

Best wishes,
Markus

> With best regards,
> --
> Edzer
>
> Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
>> Hi Edzer and Markus,
>>
>> Markus, thanks for introducing about
>> WPS of http://www.intamap.org/.
>>
>> Edzer, I have briefly gone through the
>> intamap site. Need to study more. BTW,
>> I also have a copy of your book
>> "Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R"
>> which I hope to study and learn more.
>>
>> This mail is intended to introduce you
>> to our new ZOO-Project (www.zoo-project.org)
>> that was presented at FOSS4G 2009 in Sydney.
>> I would like to know if we could workout synergy
>> between Intamap and ZOO-Tribe to share experience
>> and knowledge on robust WPS implementation,
>>
>> Song-san from China has started working on
>> implementing R Services for the ZOO kernel.
>> Also, we hope to implement GRASS WPS services too.
>>
>> The ideas is to develop a developer guide
>> including many examples of R, GRASS, GDAL/OGR,
>> CGAL, ORFEO and Open Office WPS on the ZOO
>> platform and also build "model repository"
>> on ZOO OWS Platform.
>>
>> Unlike PyWPS, ZOO provides a multi-language
>> (C, Python, PHP etc.). Legacy Fortran code
>> can also be integrated into ZOO to enable
>> WPS for environmental models. Example of
>> Fortran model Drift-X was also presented
>> at FOSS4G 2009.
>>
>> Presently we have a closed ML and trac and I can
>> subscribe Edzer to the ML and provide trac access,
>> if he is interested.
>>
>> Second ZOO tribe meeting was scheduled for
>> 20 Nov 2009 in Montpellier. And am waiting
>> to get more info on the discussions there
>>
>> I understand that you will meet with Markus
>> on Dec 17, 2009. Hope both of you can discuss
>> further during your meeting too.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Venka, a ZOO-Tribal
>
> --
> Edzer Pebesma
> Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster
> Weseler Straße 253, 48151 Münster, Germany. Phone: +49 251
> 8333081, Fax: +49 251 8339763 http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/
> http://www.springer.com/978-0-387-78170-9 e.pebesma at wwu.de
>
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