[Incubator] [OSGeo-Discuss] Is Your Project In OSGeo Labs?

[Ari Jolma]

On 11/29/2012 07:21 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
> Ari:
>
> It sounds like Geoinformatica is a raster algebra and raster
> visualization library writtin in Perl with support for GTK. Is that a
> fair description?

Geoinformatica is a data access with GDAL support, raster algebra, and 
raster and vector visualization library written in Perl with support for 
GTK+.

That sounds like a fair description.

>
> If you are interested, I can work the next couple of weeks to get
> Geoinformatica set up in Labs.

If you mean the set up process in the wiki, then those steps have been 
taken already.

>   Let me know, and we can move our
> conversation over to the incubation mailing list so we don't bore
> people on the discuss mailing list.

I've done this.

Ari

>
> Thanks for responding to my inquiry!
>
> Landon
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/29/2012 02:31 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
>>> I'm in the process of trying to take over as the steward for OSGeo
>>> Labs as part of my duties with the OSGeo Incubation Committee. As part
>>> of this process I'd like to get a handle on the projects that are "in"
>>> labs. There is a short list of "stable" and "young and experimental"
>>> projects on the current Labs wiki page. Since I'm editing that page
>>> today, here is the list:
>>>
>>> Stable Projects:
>>> - GeoWebCache
>>> - pgRouting
>>>
>>> Young and Experimental Projects
>>> - GeoExt
>>> - GeoFunctions
>>> - Geoinformatica
>>
>> Geoinformatica is my project, it's not young, but it's experimental. It's
>> made of a part in C, libral, and several Perl packages, which build on GDAL
>> and GTK+ Perl bindings (I also maintain the GDAL Perl bindings). The oldest
>> parts are in libral, which date at least 10 years back. libral was a simple
>> raster algebra package, but I've added to it a simple visualization library
>> to render GDAL rasters and vectors to a memory canvas (pixbuf), which can be
>> given to GDK (a GTK+ subsystem). I've made an effort to separate this
>> library into a library of its own (gvl - also a part of Geoinformatica), but
>> it's not in use.
>>
>> Geoinformatica has a very small community, I guess one reason is because the
>> Perl geospatial community is small(?) and distributed. Also, maybe it's the
>> experimental or personal thing, but maintaining stable APIs or a reasonable
>> development path in several interdependent libraries has been quite
>> difficult for me. However, I regularly use Geoinformatica myself. I use the
>> GUI a bit less because QGIS has become very good and because there is not
>> yet useful WMS and WFS GUIs to use the GDAL WMS and WFS drivers in it.
>> Lately I've written WxS servers (WMS and WFS are functional already) with it
>> - Perl has traditionally very good web/CGI support so that's interesting.
>>
>> I think OSGeo Labs could be a good forum and platform for collaboration with
>> academia, especially the OSGeo Academic Network and the emerging network of
>> research labs collaborating with OSGeo and FOSS4G in general. One issue I
>> have observed is that the developer community in academic FOSS4G (and other
>> geospatial) users/members is still a small minority. Yes, I'm in academia
>> too.
>>
>> This may be the best portal for Geoinformatica things in the web
>>
>> http://geoinformatics.aalto.fi/en/software/
>>
>> Cheers and thanks Landon for taking this up,
>>
>> Ari
>>
>>> - OpenGeocoder
>>> - OpenRouter
>>> - Grids
>>> - OSGeo Graphics
>>> - pycsw
>>> - OWSLib
>>> - SemanticGeo
>>> - ZOO-Project
>>>
>>> Can you please let me know if you are involved with one of these
>>> projects? I'm trying to determine which projects are "in" labs, and
>>> then establish a point of contact with each project so I can help them
>>> get ready for official incubation.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Landon
>>>
>>> P.S. - If you have thoughts on the purpose and work of OSGeo Labs,
>>> please let me know. I have my own vision, but I'd like to get feedback
>>> from other OSGeo members.
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