C5 Landscape Database API 1.0.3 release

Sept. 7, 2005

Type: discussion

C5 Landscape Database API 1.0.3 release
An Open Source GIS API for Digital Elevation Model processing and
performance
© C5 corporation 2002-2005, under the GNU Lesser Public License

As exhibited (1.0.3b) in Fair Assembly: Making Things Public, online
project at the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (The Center for
Art and Media Technology), Karlsruhe, Germany, Curator: Steve Deitz.
http://makingthingspublic.zkm.de/fa/intro.do?lan=en

* DEM packages
* RDBMS packages for DEM data
* Support for processing DEM data dynamically
* Analytic table support for landscape searching
* Simple GUI (demtool) for viewing DEMs
* Support for data export and management

http://www.c5corp.com/research/demtool/index.shtml

Overview of C5 Landscape Database API 1.0.3

The C5 Landscape Database API 1.0.3 began as a Digital Elevation Model
browser and data export tool, (DEM Tool), written in java. Now a part of
the C5 Landscape Database API packages, the C5 DEM Tool is still useful
for browsing a collection DEM files via a simple graphical user
interface. But since the original release of the Dem Tool utility and
related classes in 2002, the library of related Java classes have grown
and were significantly reorganized. The mission of the API also drifted
as C5 theorized the relationships between landscape data and art
practice and began implementing software mediated performances in the
landscape, all of which led us to theorize more, rewrite the software,
and perform yet more experiments in the landscape. Now merged with the
capabilities of a number of C5 Perl modules (which were retired after
being ported to java this year), the software has evolved into a robust
platform for data mediated practice in the landscape, through much
experimentation and performance during the course of developing the C5
Landscape Initiative Projects.

For more information on C5 Corporation
http://www.c5corp.com/

Current Applications of the API:

The Other Path (2004 and ongoing)
http://www.c5corp.com/projects/otherpath/index.shtml
See also Deitz, Steve, *The Path More or Less Taken*, May 2005
http://www.yproductions.com/writing/archives/000707.html

The C5 GPS Media Player - a visual interface providing the ability to
navigate and display the GPS tracks and their related media
http://www.c5corp.com/projects/gpsmediaplayer/index.shtml

And various other projects… C5 hopes others will find these packages
useful.

Written in Java, C5 Landscape Database runs on UNIX variants and Windows
systems with Java 1.5 (Java 2), or any other system for which Java 2 is
implemented.