Community page for Adrian Custer

This project will hold the discussions of my various uDig experiments.

uDig R connector

The major thrust of my uDig research has been on how to perform spatial analysis operations (e.g. statistical analysis of point patterns) on uDig data.

I've looked at embedding an R process in uDig running the JRI bindings.

My last effort stalled trying to roundtrip a null operation (copy data).

uDig Catalog Refactor

This work intends to turn the uDig catalog into a first class information management system. Before mapping, GIS is about Information Management i.e. GIS is an Information System which happens to handle spatial data.

We need a catalog which gives feed back about the servers to which we connect.

We need a catalog that allows users easily to manipulate data. Basic manipulation operations, create, copy, delete, should be easy. Similarly, a user should be able to select part of a shapefile and save that as a new file. A user should be able to drag a shapefile onto a postgis host and have the file contents added into a simple feature database.

More on this in a formal design document.

uDig Feature Refactor

The uDig feature and branded feature ought to be remixed for modularity and for branding.

The feature setup could better separate out the pieces to allow fourth party users to mix and match what they want more clearly.

The branding ought to be rethought to make fourth parties able to acknowledge the work of the underlying layers. Right now the easiest strategy is to blow away the uDig branding---that's unfortunate for everyone.