[MetaCRS] Possible inclusion of GeographicLib in MetaCRS
Charles Karney
charles.karney at sri.com
Wed May 4 16:27:02 EDT 2011
Frank suggested that I redirect this request to the MetaCRS mailing
list...
--Charles
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Possible inclusion of GeographicLib in OSGeo
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 10:27:43 -0400
From: Charles Karney <charles.karney at sri.com>
To: info at osgeo.org <info at osgeo.org>
CC: Francesco Lovergine <frankie at debian.org>
I would like to explore making GeographicLib an OSGeo project. Here are
the answers to the questionnaire at
http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html
1. Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project
Owner.
Charles Karney <charles at karney.com>
2. Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).
Francesco Lovergine <frankie at debian.org> (Debian integration)
3. Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all
official committers.
Charles Karney <charles at karney.com>, SRI International
Francesco Lovergine <frankie at debian.org>, Debian
4. Please describe your Project.
C++ library for basic projections, geodesic calculations, geoid
evaluations. Emphasis is on high accuracy with documented bounds on
the errors. Part of the attraction of GeographicLib is its lack of
dependence on other libraries. If *all* your code needs to do is
transform between geographic coordinates and UTM (for example),
GeographicLib may be the simplest solution.
5. Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?
Exposure to more end users. Ease use of GeographicLib by other
OSGeo projects.
6. Type of application does this project represents (client, server,
standalone, library, etc.):
library
7. Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.
none (depends only on standard C++ library)
8. Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or
products.
none
9. Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?
LGPL
10. Is there already a beta or official release?
Yes, see http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net. GeographicLib is
also a Debian package.
11. What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis
or other higher education, government, or some other source)?
personal hobby
12. Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what
extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any
standard (CITE for example)? If not, is it the intention of the
project owners to seek certification at some point?
not applicable
13. Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the
copyright?
yes x 3
14. How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?) to
the project at this time?
1
15. How many people have commit access to the source code repository?
2
16. Approximately how many users are currently using this project?
SourceForge downloads average 500/month. Estimate several hundred
active users.
17. What type of users does your project attract (government,
commercial, hobby, academic research, etc. )?
I've fielded questions about GeographicLib from a wide range of
users (US Census Bureau, oil industry, aerospace industry,
academics, etc.)
18. If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the
OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project
of the OSGeo Foundation?
Assuming GeographicLib remains hosted on SourceForge, OSGeo
membership would permit its inclusion in OSGeo4W and possibly
simplify its use by other OSGeo projects.
19. Does the project include an automated build and test?
cmake support will be added on the next release (probably within a
month). This includes source packaging, binary installer for
Windows, regression tests. In addition, as a Debian project, it
undergoes an automated build.
20. What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)
Code is C++. Documentation is via doxygen. Man pages are via
pod2man and pod2html.
21. What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French,
Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?
English.
22. What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project? How
many users do you expect to download the project when it is
released?
Source tarball unpacks to 7.6MB, of which 5MB is documentation.
Library size is 310kB. Headers are 350kB.
GeographicLib uses data files for geoid height calculations. The
largest of these is EGM2008 on a 1' grid; this is 470MB, installed,
and 170MB, as a compressed tar file. All the geoid grids are 560MB
installed.
See answer to question 16 for the number of users.
--
Charles Karney <charles.karney at sri.com>
SRI International, Princeton, NJ 08543-5300
Tel: +1 609 734 2312
Fax: +1 609 734 2662
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