<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks for reaching out to OSGeo Alex. We appreciate you request about making Blink Raster a part of our OSGeo Community Projects. <br><br></div>Let me reach out to our committee with a few questions, and then I'll get back to you on the next steps. I apologize for my late response. I'm just getting caught up on e-mail.<br><br></div>Landon<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:56 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.hagen-zanker@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank">a.hagen-zanker@surrey.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all, <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Apologies if you received this message already. I sent a message last week that made it to the list archive (<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2018-January/003475.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/incubator/2018-<wbr>January/003475.html</a>),
but apparently not to all email inboxes. <u></u><u></u></p><span class="">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to propose my open source library as an OSGeo Community project. The library is called Blink Raster and it is a C++ library aimed at efficient raster processing using basic and modern C++ idioms. The library is based on my
experience of developing Cellular Automata land use models, map comparison methods, neutral models and geostatistics for raster data. I would think that the primary users will be researchers in the field of environmental modelling, who require more flexibility
than offered by GIS packages and more efficiency than offered by script based libraries. However, the functionality is quite fundamental, so who knows where it may be useful.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal">I think I meet all the requirements for a Community project. I still lack a community though
<span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span>. I will introduce the library at FOSDEM 2018 and submitted an abstract for the FOSS4G UK 2018. in March.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The project is hosted on Github: <a href="http://www.github.com/ahhz/raster" target="_blank">
www.github.com/ahhz/raster</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am quite open as to whether this should formally be an OSGeo Community project or just a project listed on the website. I believe the library is at a stage now where it can be useful to people and can be used within other projects. The
reason for reaching out to the OSGeo community is to find users, get feedback and potentially find collaborators.<u></u><u></u></p><span class="">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for taking this into consideration, I’ll be happy to hear from you.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With kind regards, Alex<u></u><u></u></p>
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