[postgis-devel] Geodetic Plan

[Paul Ramsey]

Folks,

I may be getting a contract to bring in geodetic support in the next
little while. The challenge is to bring in this potentially big piece
of new functionality, and have it into a released version in around 9
months. I have been thinking about different ways to approach the
implementation and placed some thoughts here.

http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1184727/geodetic-plan.txt

I'm interested to hear your thoughts about what the most useful
approach would be. The client wants to see this work in the core
distribution, and OpenGeo has an interest in the longer term vision of
PostGIS, so the most expedient approach is not necessarily required,
we can choose something that balances our long-term vision with the
short-term need to have working code in a numbered release.

Yours,

Paul