[postgis-devel] postgis_letters in project tree?

[Regina Obe]

I approve Bruce’s comments :) and would be cool to have more font offerings.

 

As noted in repo - https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/robe/postgis_letters

 

The kankin one came from https://www.fontfabric.com/fonts/kankin/

 

Which Bruce graciously converted to PostGIS geometries for me.

 

My only concern about lots of new functions in a separate extension is that could get very big and disorganized very fast.

I know a lot of people have written many extensions or stand-alone scripts.  E.g. Martin’s SVG library. 

https://github.com/dr-jts/pg_svg

 

I was thinking it would make a lot of sense to combine that in with the letters one but name it something else. Not sure what an appropriate name would be.

 

I like the idea of each extension having a specific targeted focus, like the SVG, extensions for hydrology etc.

 

But I’m not sure that is too realistic to package all together in postgis.

 

Regarding the meeting. I was thinking about canceling the meeting as I couldn’t find a good time that works for everyone, but if people still think there is value in that, perhaps we can pick another day.  Maybe Friday just isn’t a good day.

 

Thanks,

Regina

 

 

From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Rindahl
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 4:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] postgis_letters in project tree?

 

I think it should be a separate extension.  The issue is what fonts can be distributed because of copyright restrictions.  Regina can pipe in on where she got the Kankin font.  I have a font set that Google put in the PD.  Other than that, I would have to write up how to add a font to the database.

Maybe a discussion at the next meeting would be to create a misc type of extension.  This could be new code or just lots of SQL functions that are useful.  I think Martin has a collection of them.  Some users do not have administrative rights so an extension might \be helpful.

Bruce

 

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 1:16 PM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca <mailto:pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> > wrote:

What do you think about adding postgis_letters to the project? Either as a standalone postgis_letters extension (ala address_standardizer) or just dropping the function into the core postgis extension?

P
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