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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Hi all,</span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I wrote a proposal about a MongoDB Driver for GDAL/OGR, which has been submitted to the melange. </span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I regard GSoC as
a great opportunity to get connected with the Open Source world. </span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Well, since it's my first time to do this, I'm really not sure whether it's proper. Here are some info.</span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">OGR Driver for MongoDB</span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">MongoDB, a document database that provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability, can be a good platform for storing extremely large spatial datasets, to support high performance
geo-computation and real-time spatial analysis in a large scale.This project aims at developing a OGR Driver for MongoDB to help applications or softwares based on GDAL, such as QGIS, Mapserver, Geoserver, Mapnik, ArcGIS and so on, read & write the spatial
data in it, and thus enable the Open Source GIS Ecosystem powered by the advanced NoSQL database.</span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A FEW WORDS ABOUT ME</span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I'm a PhD candidate in my second year, with high performance geo-computation as my main research fields. This project is actually part of my research undergoing. when i saw the OSGeo GSoC
flyer a week ago, i thought why not cooperate with the Open Source community and contribute my research. thereby, i wrote the proposal.</span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I have spent a lot of time learning GDAL and building parallel geo-algorithms on it, so i think i'm quite familiar with GDAL/OGR and know how it works in the code level. I also devoted lots
of my time in playing with MongoDB since we need a faster solution to support our high performance computing applications running on a large scale Linux cluster. the thought making GDAL/OGR communicate with MongoDB culster was just wonderful, simply because
it prevents us from re-invent the wheel and get lots of GIS tools reusable.</span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I'm looking forward to your advises.</span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">thank you for your time and consideration.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">My Regards,</span><br style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">shuai</span></div>
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