Road Map

• Stage 1. - Get the most basic pipeline working: starting from a collection of points and a collection of lines, make a TIN object in memory that can be drawn with no embellishment (no hillshades or elevation color bands yet).

• Stage 2. - Save the TIN to a file on disk and be able to read that back into a TIN object.

• Stage 3. - Expand the import side so that points and lines could be read from a file. I would like to at least get an import pipeline working for WKT based files and USGS .bil elevation files.

• Stage 4. - Get hillshades and color elevation bands to work in the display of the TIN.

• Stage 5. - Make a multi-resolution data structure in which you could read in the full point set, then query the data structure to get a TIN at the requested resolution.

(I'm sure by this point the summer will have ended, but work will continue in the following direction)

• Stage 6. - 3D display of the TIN and overlays using java opengl bindings.

• Stage 7. - Get the multi-resolution data structure to be database backed and queried through WMS.

• Stage 8. - Viewsheds.

• Stage 9. - Watersheds.