[pgrouting-dev] GSoC projects and next steps

[Dave Potts]

On 30/09/13 15:23, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
Hi

Is it possible to have summary of the features that Mukul and Razequl 
work adds to pgrouting?
regards
Dave.
> Mukul and Razequl,
>
> Congratulations on your successful completion of GSoC!
> I'm sorry that Daniel and I have been very busy with our own projects 
> of the recent past and have not been engaging more with you guys. 
> Please make sure you complete the final code submission and 
> requirements for Google so you will get paid for all your hard work.
>
> For next steps, I see Daniel has merged the the develop branch into 
> the vrp branch. This will make it easier to eventually merge your code 
> back into the develop branch for our 2.1 release in the future. I 
> think we need to add some methods to generate the distance matrix 
> based on a list of locations. We can write a simple Euclidean distance 
> generator for fast demos and write a separate function that uses 
> one-to-many Dijkstra function to generate the distance matrix.
>
> Daniel, any thoughts on this? Did you have any specific plans with this?
>
> I want to do some testing on the partition projects, and look at 
> performance and memory usage on large graphs. Mukul is going to look 
> at creating a trsp-partition branch to see if he can integrate the 
> partition model into TRSP.
>
> For both these projects, I want to review at the APIs and see if I can 
> make them consistent with our new module of reusable generic types or 
> extent the types as needed. I also want to review them for usability 
> changes like removing fixed table or column names, etc.
>
> From my point of view, these tasks will have to wait for some free 
> time which will be at least 2-3 weeks out if then.
>
> I'm glad you both had a good summer with GSoC and that you will have 
> time and interest in continuing to expand you projects and support 
> pgRouting even if it is at a lower effort level because of class work 
> again.
>
> Thanks again for your efforts and significant contributions.
>
> -Steve
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