[GRASS-user] starspan with grass support compilation failure

[Moritz Lennert]

On 29/01/09 20:06, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:15 -0800, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
>> Folks:
>>
>>     I would LOVE to see someone take over development on starspan -- I 
>> did submit a OSGEO application but it came back denied, more or less, 
>> because of lack of community support.  There are a lot of bugs and user 
>> interface issues still remaining that would be nice to get cleaned up, 
>> but I'm not a C programmer and, while I developed the algorithm itself, 
>> I was not the coder.
>>
>>     If anyone is interested in working on the development, please email 
>> me!  If you all are not sure what STARSPAN does, it is a flexible way to 
>> get raster data (raw or summarized) associated with vector coverages 
>> (similar to Arc's zonalstats, although with more output types).  E.g., 
>> if you want to get the average pixel values from a SET of raster images 
>> underlying a single vector coverage, starspan will spit out a CSV 
>> containing the vector's original database, along with a column for the 
>> average pixel value for that polygon.  The algorithm tends to be very 
>> fast, especially in cases where the polygon coverage is a fraction of 
>> the raster coverage (which tends to be the case in many problems).
>>
>> --j
> 
> Jonathan + all,
> 
> please excuse my ignorance if I ask something that I shouldn't: could
> you imagine starspan as part of GRASS? Something like "v.starspan" ?
> 


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+1

Moritz