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

[Landon Blake]

Thanks for the response Steve. Let me get my hands around this in the
next couple of days and I'll get back to you. It would be great to get
pgRouting and PAGC into Labs.

Landon

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> On 11/29/2012 12:18 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
>>
>> Steve:
>>
>> Thanks for your response to my inquiry.
>>
>> It sounds like you had two (2) projects related to routing/geocoding,
>> but that these have merged/share code with pgRouting and PAGC.
>>
>> Do you think there is enough independent code in either your routing
>> or geocoding effort to start a Labs project? If there is, and your
>> interested in building some broader support for your efforts, I'd like
>> to help get you going with Labs.
>>
>> Just let me know.
>
>
> Hi Landon,
>
> I think that both pgRouting and PAGC should probably be brought under the
> labs as separate projects.
>
> pgRouting, which has a strong following, but is wanting dedicated
> development support and/or funding is the more mature and stable of the two.
> There had been some discussion about moving it under the PostGIS project,
> but that has not gone anywhere. There are two main advocates, me and Daniel
> Kastl <daniel.kastl at georepublic.de>. We have supported multiple (6) GSoC
> candidates with successful projects over the last 4 years.
>
> PAGC has a lot of very good Geocoder technology wrapped up in it, but it has
> a serious performance problem scaling up from a county data set to a
> national dataset. I have been working with the developer over the last year
> to fix this, but it is a slow unfunded effort. I think we are close to a
> break through and this would be a major step to breathing some life back
> into this project. Our next goal is to refactor the code into more or less
> standalone modules/object that can be reused in other projects. For example,
> as a prototype to this, I have extracted the address parser/standardizer
> into a library and have been able to wrap it into a postgresql stored
> procedure and used that with some plpgsql code to build a simple geocoder
> that is fast but without all the features of PAGC.
>
> So let me know what we might need to do. I'm on the PSC for both these
> projects.
>
> I have CC'd Daniel (pgRouting) and Walter (PAGC).
>
> Thanks,
>   -Steve
>
>
>> Landon
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
>> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> PAGC
>
>