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geotrellis / geotrellis-server

Tools for building raster processing and display services
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`ogc-example` project is tough to get running #164

Open notthatbreezy opened 5 years ago

notthatbreezy commented 5 years ago

The ogc-example project's application conf includes resources that are not publicly accessible or easily reconfigured.

I think an improvement would be to use CogNode's instead of GeoTrellis layers (even if the resources are still not publicly accessible) since those can at least be more easily substituted in a development environment. This scenario happens sometimes when I've run into bugs/issues with some of the OGC services and had to figure out if the bug existed in my application code or exists in the library -- being able to quickly come up with a proof-of-concept that either reproduces or fails to reproduce the problem can be a blocker in that workflow.

echeipesh commented 5 years ago

Would it be more helpful to have an easy way to standup an instance of a given service from console for this kind of thing?

For instance:

val service = WcsService.fromMap(
Map(
  "layer1" -> GeoTiffRasterSource(???), 
  "layer2" -> GeoTrellisRasterSource(???))

service.bind("0.0.0.0") // ??? --some kind of one command utility to standup an endpoint
notthatbreezy commented 5 years ago

I think that could work, but that's not what I had in mind.

I was thinking the conf idea is still a good one, but having one that is more accessible and easier to get started with maybe a few different examples - and starting the server with one as an argument. Right now there is a lot to edit in the existing example conf and it's not even really possible to switch to using a COG rather than a GT source without making code changes.

echeipesh commented 5 years ago

I agree with all of that, lets keep this issue specifically for that conf cleanup and breakup work.