[gdal-dev] Questions about projects of GSoC 2009

[Jorge Arévalo]

Hello Klokan,

Thanks for encouraging me! And congratulations for your excellent job with
gdal2tiles. It really saved me from a lot of unproductive hours...

It would be great to help you with WMTS implementation, or work with PNG
driver, or with WKT Raster driver. I'm going to apply for the three projects
directly on the GSoC page. Frank Warmerdarm told me on the GSoC list that it
was the correct way. Am I right?

Best regards
Jorge


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Klokan Petr Přidal <klokan at klokan.cz>wrote:

> Jorge,
>
> I am glad you are interested in the PNG driver, which I suggested as a
> project for Summer of Code...
> It would be really great to have this in GDAL and I guess more
> projects will profit from this...
>
> I am going to assist as much as I can, whether in gsoc program
> timeframe or even otherwise.
> Feel free to contact me with any questions related to this project...
>
> I guess for position of mentor there are better candidates then me
> (like Frank, Even, Mateusz, ...)
>
> Because I am a PhD student I applied in this Summer of Code as well as
> a student so I technically I can not be your mentor. I can work this
> summer on the WMTS implementation and other GDAL2Tiles improvements...
> but I don't want to block position of new candidates...
> If you are interested in WMTS implementation and GDAL2Tiles then just
> go ahead, this I can mentor for sure ;-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Klokan
>
> 2009/3/30 Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net>:
> > Jorge Arévalo wrote:
> >> The entire process could be improved by several ways:
> >>
> >> - I would like to have an enhaced PNG driver, to reduce the size of the
> >> tiles. For this reason, I had a theoretical approach to NeuQuant
> >> algorithm and I used pngnq. I discovered the relation between this
> >> algorithm and Kohonen Neural Networks, that I studied during my degree,
> >> and I liked a lot. Basically, for these reasons I'm interested in the
> >> project about PNG Driver
> >
> > Nice idea.
> >
> >> - On one hand, at first I was using raster data, instead of vector data.
> >> When the need of merging data arose, I had to change the point and use
> >> vector data + Postgis. On the other hand, I would like to integrate my
> >> layer to another ones in a bigger context, and I think that the raster
> >> support on Postgis will be a really useful thing. For these reasons, I'm
> >> interested in the project about WKT Raster.
> >
> > Good.
> >
> >> - Before using gdal2tiles, I made my own "map tiler", creating the tiles
> >> needed "on-the-fly". As thought, it didn't work. I tried to use my own
> >> "tile cache system". One problem was the low rate of cache hints. Then,
> >> I discovered the WMS standard, and recently, the coming WMTS standard,
> >> even better. For this reason, I'm interested in the project about WMTS
> >> implementation.
> >
> > Good as well.
> >
> >> Now, this is my "minimum schedule". This is, the minimum amount of time
> >> that I can use this summer. With high probability, I will be able to use
> >> more time, but I prefer to put myself in the worst situation:
> >>
> >> May 23 - June 30: 22h per week (total 118h)
> >> July 1 - July 31: 45h per week (total 207h)
> >> August 1 - August 10: 22h per week (total 26h)
> >
> > It should be more than enough.
> >
> >> Finally, I have experience with C, C++, Java and Python languages. My
> >> favourite one is C. I made the most of my practice work during degree in
> C.
> >
> > Good.
> >
> >> Do you think, with this provisional schedule in mind, that I can apply
> >> for one of the projects?
> >
> > Yes, I'm sure you are able to do it.
> >
> >> If not, would it be possible to find a mentor for one of them?
> >> Without paying and GSoC deadlines, of course.
> >
> > I'm sure you can try, it won't hurt :-)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
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>
>
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