Google Summer of Code Ideas

[Steve Lime]

Other ideas depend on how deep into the guts you might want someone to go. I like the
KML idea. One could easily envision more general output support. After KML someone would
want GeoRSS and then the next big thing. Would be nice to develop something extensible. 
Even taking the existing GML driver and making it an output format would be useful (e.g. 
independent of OWS).

Other ideas might include:

  -  label drawing efficiency (building on Steve W.'s bit cache idea)
  - autorotation for polygon features
  - XML mapfiles although that is probably way to big
  - run-time joins for rendering and classification

Steve

>>> On 3/9/2007 at 4:08 PM, in message <45F1DAF9.1020606 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
Morissette <dmorissette at MAPGEARS.COM> wrote:
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> 
>> IF we ever get around to cleaning up the C code that would be great. But 
>> if we defined an API and SWIG'd it then that would be the API that we 
>> would clean up to, and it would give us a starting place. And it would 
>> be doable as a summer project.
>> 
> 
> Would you be willing to mentor this project?  ;)
> 
> 
>> I'm just saying ...
>> And you were asking for ideas ...
> 
> Sorry if I sound like I'm shooting down good ideas. I know I'm the worst 
> person to have in a brainstorming sessions because I tend to jump into 
> the feasibility analysis too quick.
> 
> Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Morissette
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