Re: [Geotools-devel] how to create a gridcoverage datastore?

[andrea a. <and...@gm...>]

>> Thanks, I already browsed those once and I missed the importance of
>> 01format.
>
> Okay; just be sure you understand that it is an unmaintained mess so Format
> may not actually be important at all (ie it may be a design element that was
> ignored while everyone just uses GridCoverageReaders directly ....). That is
> what uDig was forced to do...

Ok, got you.

>> Hmm... wcs... I like that... for udig? :)
>>
>
> For GeoTools; but it would be the data access api that uDig would use. My
> problem is I was unwilling to do the work until I had a buddy that knew
> something about coverages along for the ride :-)

He, he, he... now I'm afraid. What about coming to Italy to the code
sprint in a few weeks and have a great fun on all this? :)

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>> Thanks Jody, I will first have to study a bit though, don't want to
>> torment you before I do not have a better picture on the coverage-imageio
>> "mappings".
>>
>
> Gottcha - I am on that mailing list as well; and it is pretty heady stuff.
>>
>> One question though: I didn't expect that many deprecated classes at that
>> level. I checked out the arcgrid plugin and there are some of them. Is that
>> ok? I'm pretty sure I have the right code.... but...
>>
>
> See above; it is a mess; I think the deprecated classes are the only ones
> that work or some such? This code is by far the worst from a user point of
> view ... good thing it performs so well.

:)
Alright, then I go on without worring too much.
In the meanwhile I gave a look at the ArcGrid plugin and it looks very
nice to me... thank God it seems that the heavy part is on the imageio
part.

Andrea


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> Jody
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