[OSGeo-Edu] ACM SIGSPATIAL contest

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Stefan, 

Thanks for this info. There is also a QGIS Schematization Plugin that was proposed by  Luciene Delazari along with Mark Ware and myself for this year's Google Summer of Code. Details below:

In the current version there are few tools for generalization (Dedicated to line simplification). It would be a great improvement to have some functions to create schematic maps, for example:

   #   Simplify lines - input data will typically contain redundant vertices. These are removed by application of a suitable line simplification algorithm (in our case the Douglas-Peucker algorithm). For example building on the QGIS generalize plugin
   #   topology - ensures that original map and derived schematic map are topologically consistent i.e yopology of the network is preserved during the schematization process.
   #   angular - if possible, edges should lie in horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction.
    minimum edge length - if possible, all edges should have length greater than some minimum length.

In future, we can add more functionalities by adding constraints on Rotation, Clearance, Displacement etc.

http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 

It will be good opportunity if we can implement this as plugin in QGIS.

Suchith


-----Original Message-----
From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Steiniger
Sent: 20 February 2014 14:26
To: edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Edu] ACM SIGSPATIAL contest

Hi all,

the ACM SIGSPATIAL contest this year is about a map generalization task.
If someone has interest or interested students, please forward:

http://mypages.iit.edu/~xzhang22/GISCUP2014/

would be interesting to see also how standard FOS desktop GIS perform on this.

cheers,
stefan
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