Interacting views and realtime data.

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Hello,

I have some questions about the capabilities of GRASS GIS concerning
multiple views and display/storing of realtime data:

We have a desk with a view of a terrain (2D view from top, optionally
3D from the side would be nice) and onto the desk are tablet PCs each
with a magnified portion of the underlying terrain (i.e. the views are
different from each other).

Is it possible with GRASS GIS

1. That when the user interacts with one view (in the tablet PC ), he
   also manipulates (shift, zoom, change layer) the other view (in the
   desk)? If not yet, would GRASS GIS be customizable to do so?
2. When using GRASS GIS with WMS/WFS/WCS, display of realtime vector
   data coming in from sensors like GPS signals overlayed over the 3D-
   map (terrain)? The architecture would be an additional data source
   (to WFS and WCS) with the GPS signals and the WMS puts them
   together to one raster image and sends them to the multiple views?
   By the way, the views (in the tablet PCs and onto the desk) are
   different, not identical. Another architecture (and better one, I
   think) would be that the data from WMS, WFS, WCS and the GPS come
   from different servers to the clients (instead via the bottleneck
   of only via the WMS like above) and the clients (onto the tablet
   PCs) do the "merging" of the data into one view each by themselves.

So it would be nice to realize such an architecture, if possible
solely with GRASS GIS or, if reasonable, together with UMN MapServer
and/or GeoServer (for transactional WFS to be able to write back
annotations on the map and changes made in the vector data).

So if someone could tell me whether the above scenario is realizable
with GRASS GIS and estimate how much effort it would take, you would
greatly help me.

Thank you in advance and

Best regards,

Peter.


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hi,

2007/3/20, Peter Fischer <[hidden email]>:

> Hello,
>
> I have some questions about the capabilities of GRASS GIS concerning
> multiple views and display/storing of realtime data:
>
> We have a desk with a view of a terrain (2D view from top, optionally
> 3D from the side would be nice) and onto the desk are tablet PCs each
> with a magnified portion of the underlying terrain (i.e. the views are
> different from each other).
>
> Is it possible with GRASS GIS
>
> 1. That when the user interacts with one view (in the tablet PC ), he
>    also manipulates (shift, zoom, change layer) the other view (in the
>    desk)? If not yet, would GRASS GIS be customizable to do so?

if you mean, that the display content should change in all map
windows, while zooming/panning in one of them, yes, this is planed
feature

> 2. When using GRASS GIS with WMS/WFS/WCS, display of realtime vector
>    data coming in from sensors like GPS signals overlayed over the 3D-
>    map (terrain)? The architecture would be an additional data source
>    (to WFS and WCS) with the GPS signals and the WMS puts them
>    together to one raster image and sends them to the multiple views?
>    By the way, the views (in the tablet PCs and onto the desk) are
>    different, not identical. Another architecture (and better one, I
>    think) would be that the data from WMS, WFS, WCS and the GPS come
>    from different servers to the clients (instead via the bottleneck
>    of only via the WMS like above) and the clients (onto the tablet
>    PCs) do the "merging" of the data into one view each by themselves.

note: current "common" display architecture handles only 2D data. for
3D data you must use separate module NVIZ. it is on our todo to
integrate nviz functionality in new map display system.

although there is only poor support for Web Services in GRASS now.
>
> So it would be nice to realize such an architecture, if possible
> solely with GRASS GIS or, if reasonable, together with UMN MapServer
> and/or GeoServer (for transactional WFS to be able to write back
> annotations on the map and changes made in the vector data).

maybe v.edit && WPS could be interesting for you

>
> So if someone could tell me whether the above scenario is realizable
> with GRASS GIS and estimate how much effort it would take, you would
> greatly help me.
>
> Thank you in advance and
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter.
>

Peter, from what I read in OSGeo and related mailing lists, I got
feeling, that you never started GRASS to see, what it does and what
not. Why not just give it a try to see, how it is build and what are
it's capabilities? Than we can talk more concrete.

Sorry if I'm wrong, I did not read the e-mails very carefully

Jachym
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