Post Gridfour Core to Maven Central

[gwlucastrig]

Version 1.0 of Gridfour Core is now ready for posting to Maven Central.

The following tasks are required:

1. Post Gridfour Core to Maven Central
2. Post a new Wiki page giving a getting started guide
3. Create an S3 bucket on Amazon AWS (the cloud)to provide samples of the ETOPO1 data set in GVRS format. This file is about 120 MB. Posting it on the cloud will give interested developers a set of data that they can use while testing the GVRS API.

[gwlucastrig]

Version 1.0 of the Gridfour Core API is now posted to the Maven Central Repository. If you are using Maven, you may include GridfourCore as a dependency in your pom.xml using the following.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.gridfour</groupId>
  <artifactId>GridfourCore</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
</dependency>

Gridfour Core has no 3rd party dependencies beyond the Java standard API.

If you wish to download the compiled Jar manually, please visit on of the many Maven repositories on the Internet including
Maven Central Repository

[gwlucastrig]

I have also set up an S3 on the Amazon AWS cloud so that you may download a GVRS file containing global elevation and bathymetry in a 1-minute-of-arc grid spacing. The file is a compressed version of NOAA's ETOPO1 data product.

Access data at: ETOPO1_comp.gvrs

ETOPO1 is one of the examples featured in Gridfour's wiki page How to package data using the GVRS library

You may learn more about ETOPO1 at NOAA's ETOPO1 Global Relief

[gwlucastrig]

I am currently writing a series of "getting started" articles for the Gridfour wiki page. I hope these will help new developers quickly learn how to use the GVRS API for their own applications.

You may visit the wiki at https://github.com/gwlucastrig/gridfour/wiki

[gwlucastrig]

Version 1.0 is now posted.