Related Work
Here is a of external projects, documents, thesis and other work that can be valuable source of information:
Thesis
- Specifika objektového přístupu ve správě dat geografických informačních systémů (CZ) by Petr Novosad - Thesis about specifics of object oriented approach to data management against thematic layer and relational data organization. Describes prototype of such approach too.
- TerraLib: Technology in Support of GIS Innovation (EN) by collective of authors - A brief introduction to TerraLib library and its usage.
- Design Patterns in GIS Development: The Terralib Experience (EN) by collective of authors - Inspirative work sumarizing usage of design patterns and generic programming in TerraLib project.
- Image Data Handling in Spatial Databases (EN) by Lúbia Vinhas, Ricardo Cartaxo Medesto de Souza and Gilberto Cãmara - Overview about TerraLib raster image support and tile-based and multi-resolutional raster data storage.
- TerraLib 3.1.3 - Programming Tutorial (EN)
- GEOTOOLKIT: OPENING THE ACCESS TO OBJECT-ORIENTED GEO-DATA STORES (EN) - Today a typical geo-information system (GIS) is a complex „historically grown“ software package which inevitably inherits the software-engineering practices of the past. Application programming within such systems is extremely complicated... project homepage
Books
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides - Well-know bible of software designers published by Addison-Wesley Professional.
