[OSGeoLive] Adding PerfectTIN to OSGeoLive

[Pierre Abbat]

On Monday, June 8, 2020 4:54:02 AM EDT Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> Thank you for reaching out.
> There is a process to submit a new project to OSGeoLive, please see this
> link:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Projects/How_to_apply

Name: PerfectTIN
Home page: none yet.
License: LGPL v3
Do: It converts a point cloud of terrain into a TIN, which can then be turned 
into a contour map.
Language: C++
Version: 0.4.1, which should be out in a few days.

Deployed: none yet. A friend of mine at eGPS is preparing a comparison of 
PerfectTIN and a previously existing program, in hopes that eGPS will deploy 
it.
OpenHUB: this is new to me.
User community: 1 that I know of.
Developer community: 1
Stable release: 0.4.0 may have a bug when run on Windows.

User interface: PerfectTIN has both a GUI and a CLI.

Install: Presumably from .deb packages, but I don't know how to make them.

RAM: An empty PerfectTIN process takes 34.6 MiB of unshared RAM and 82.2 MiB 
of shared (which is largely Qt libraries for the GUI). The initial processing 
steps ("Making octagon" and "6 triangles") take 168 bytes per dot of the point 
cloud, so a cloud of 3.2 million dots would just overflow 512 MiB of RAM on top 
of the empty process.

Disk space: 4.8 MiB for the application, not including Qt or Boost.

Dataset: The datasets you have appear to be all shapefiles. PerfectTIN needs a 
point cloud. Do you have any point clouds?

Project overview: not sure what this should look like.

Windows and Mac: I prepare a Windows installer with each release. I don't have 
a Mac.

Pierre
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