I certainly believe the GALEON community would benefit, and that the
FOSS4G community would, as well. I suspect a similar statement can be
made with THREDDS, as well.
The main limitation of GDAL for NetCDF is based in the lack of requests
to extend the support, and the potential to fund said updates when
critiacl mass is finally achieved.
I didn't get to attend the last OGC TC, but I suspect there were plenty
of other FOSS4G advocates there.
I was involved in some of the original FOSS4G organizational efforts but
didn't have the time to allow me to participate to any great extent.
That said, it appears to be a good organization with a lot of potential
to support and nurture projects.
Unidata, however, is also nurturing THREDDS. There's likely be a little
friction, but I strongly suspect that once the initial "dancing" is
done, the benefits to both communities would be visible.
gerry
Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
Hi Ben:
I do not know about FOSS4G per se, but the major sponsor of it appears
to be OSGeo (http://www.osgeo.org/). They are responsible for Mapserver
and Geotools and most importantly GDAL. GDAL is a nice tool for
converting between formats, and supports Netcdf and OpeNDAP, at least
partially (I can't remember if it is limited in dimensions with netcdf),
and provides the conversion for Mapserver. Conversations about
supporting netcdf4 or related things would strike me as valuable.
-Roy
On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Ben Domenico wrote:
Hi again,
Periodically, I get a suggestion that GALEON and THREDDS would be good
candidates for participation in the Free and Open Source Software for
Geospatial (FOSS4G) movement, initiative, project, community, or
whatever it is. I briefly looked into it one time earlier
http://sites.google.com/site/galeonteam/Home/GALEON%20Phase2%20Main%20Page/Unidata%20OGC%20Interoperability%20Day%20Presentations
but it came up at the recent OGC TC again.
Do any of you have any experience with, thoughts on, or suggestions
regarding whether participating in FOSS4G would indeed be an effective
approach to furthering our particular -- implementation-oriented
approach to interoperability?
-- Ben
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