[ZOO-Discuss] What do you use Zoo Project for?

[Mickael BEAUFILS]

Hi Nicolas,

 

Thanks for your answer.

I'm trying to implement my own algorithms in Java.

I will let you know if it is successful.

 

Mickaël BEAUFILS

 

De : nicolas bozon [mailto:nicolas.bozon at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : jeudi 17 mars 2011 15:45
À : Mickael BEAUFILS
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Objet : Re: [ZOO-Discuss] What do you use Zoo Project for?

 

Hi Mickaël,

This is a good question i'll try to answer using my experience with the ZOO-Project. Other users and developers from the ZOO Tribe may also explain other ZOO use cases to you.

Generally speaking, ZOO helps a lot in many Web GIS projects as it connects well with other OSGeo software (GDAL/OGR, MapServer, GRASS7...) and provides advanced processing functionnalities that you can chain and orchestrate in an easy way. It is also very usefull to use existing libs or home-made code in a OGC compliant way.

Here are listed some of the ZOO use cases we implemented so far:
- Using gdal_translate and gdal_grid for raster processing from a Web GIS interface or inside production chains
- Using OGR to add the WFS-T support to MapServer (i.e encapsulating transactions inside WPS requests and updating any OGR data source)
- Using ogr2ogr to convert/reproject vector data online
- Using various vector and raster GRASS7 modules from a Web GIS clients and from the QGIS WPS Client Plugin
- Using GoGPS software as a WPS service thanks to the ZOO-Kernel Java support
- Using CGAL library to compute Voronoï on GeoJSON data source
- Using R library to compute discretization online
- Using Drift-X model (GIS-base atmosphreric dispersion model) from a Web GIS thanks to the ZOO-Kernnel Fortran support
- Using QREncode library to generate QR Codes from a simple input text
- Using OpenOffice to convert and create .odt files from Web applications

I've probably forget some other experiments and implementations other users and devoloper may have carried out.
I think the most important point is that ZOO-Kernel let you use several programming languages so that you can use your imagination to run "any" library to develop Web Services.

Hope that helps, please tell us if you go through new experiments or use-cases.

Best,

Nick 


  




2011/3/14 Mickael BEAUFILS <mickael.beaufils at acatus.fr>

Dear Zoo users,

 

Zoo Project seems to offer great opportunities to process data (geospatial or not), perhaps beyond by imagination (!?).

 

I know that it is good at making coffee, however I am wondering what do you (zoo users) use Zoo Project for?

 

As a first answer I found some slides about the GoGPS project (http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/presentazioni/Osaka_Summer_goGPS.pdf)

 

But what about you?

 

Mickaël Beaufils


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