[Qgis-developer] GSoC: GDAL/OGR frontend plugin?

[Florian Hillen]

Hi Ian,

I'm currently working on a GDAL frontend. In the first step it includes
only the warp / reproject part, but it is designed to be expanded
afterwards.

I think that the ogr plugin is very intuitive, but maybe that just my
opinion ;)

Best regards,
Florian



> Hello all,
> I'm looking for a good Google Summer of Code project. Having used QGIS and
> being a proficient Python/GIS programmer I think its the perfect fit. I
> did
> some googling and saw that there is already some interest in a GDAL/OGR
> front end, but I would really like to take this full on. The OGR-converter
> plugin is not complete, as it can't do CRS transforms, and I hate to say I
> don't find it very intuitive. Furthermore I think a lot of the GDAL/OGR
> functionality should be able to be done "in-place" on layers, so one could
> easily create a new layer from an existing one.
>
> I think unifying CRS related options could also go a long way, using GDAL
> to
> support more than just proj4 definitions and being able to create a custom
> CRS from any place that you can select them.
> Maybe its because my single biggest headache in learning GIS was dealing
> with projections, and now that I understand them through the command line
> I
> want to make it easier on others to deal with them. I think QGIS can be
> the
> perfect tool for this because it is already great for visualization.
>
> Please give me your feedback on this!
> Thanks
>
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> Ian Johnson
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