[ZOO-Discuss] About Intamap and ZOO-Project

[Edzer Pebesma]

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?

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