[gdal-dev] GSoC'14

[John Twilley]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org
> wrote:

> Le vendredi 14 février 2014 21:33:36, John Twilley a écrit :
> > The specific C API that I am thinking about is the Warp API:
> > http://www.gdal.org/warptut.html
>
> Actually this is C++ API, not C. So a first step would be to C'ify it.
>

As long as the end result is the ability to use the Warp API in Python, I'm
happy. :-)  Not being able to do that is a little frustrating.



>
> >
> > That page includes a number of performance enhancements which might also
> > make for potentially interesting work for a summer student.
>
> Are you thinking to the "Performance optimization" section ? Well, all
> those
> performance strategies are already implemented. This is just advice to
> users
> so they can get the best performance out of the warping algorithm.
>

That's wonderful!  One less worry for users then.


>
> >
> > Jack.
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Le vendredi 14 février 2014 21:20:30, John Twilley a écrit :
> > > > One idea I would like to see considered for GSoC would be completing
> > > > the GDAL API for Python to include all the functionality that
> > > > currently
> > >
> > > exists
> > >
> > > > for C.  I wish I were experienced enough with the code base to mentor
> > > > it, though, so if it doesn't have a mentor I imagine that it can't
> > > > happen.
> > >
> > > Not sure it will make a very attractive topic for a student... To
> which C
> > > API
> > > not available to Python are you thinking to ?
> > >
> > > > Jack.
> > > >
> > > > > Selon Dmitriy Baryshnikov <bishop.dev at gmail.com>:
> > > > > > Hi Jukka,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think this is a good idea for GSoC.
> > > > > > Does the raster driver for Geopackage differs from rasterlite
> > > > > > (http://gdal.org/frmt_rasterlite.html)?
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, there are differencies in the data model, but that could serve
> > > > > as
> > >
> > > an
> > >
> > > > > inspiration. GeoPackage raster has also some similitaries with
> > > > > MBTILES (for which we have a driver too).
> > > > >
> > > > > Even
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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