[PROJ] Student contribution

[Kristian Evers]

Elli-Alban,


The supervisor isn't meant to supervise me as a teacher would, but rather direct me in order to go in the right direction to achieve the internship's goals and give advices along the way : I am supposed to have a certain level of autonomy.

The main stakes with my school are that the internship has to be hosted by an organisation (company, university, etc...) and that it has to be linked with Geomatics. Moreover, an internship agreement has to be signed between the school, the organisation and the student.

OSGeo is an organization linked with Geomatics so that could probably work somehow.

I would be happy to work on aspects of PROJ related to projection questions or CRS transformations (particularly ITRF since some of my teachers are responsible for it). But I suspect you also have specific problematics surrounding PROJ that I'm not aware of and that could suit me as well.


I think you need to come up with a more clear idea of what you want to work on. There’s not much work to do on ITRF transformations - the parameters are already defined and registered with the EPSG and the Helmert transformation code is more or less feature complete. On the projection side of things there are probably more options for you. Try taking a look at the issue tracker to get an idea of some of the currently open tickets: https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue<https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues?q=is:open+is:issue> You may find something that sparks your interest.

We can probably also come up with a few ideas for more extensive work that would be nice to get done but that is difficult without knowing anything about your skillset. If you are a super experienced C/C++ developer I can think of several advanced topics to dig into but if you have barely written code in C or C++ that is not going to work. An option could also be to improve the documentation. There are plenty to do in that regard. However, it is unclear to me if this is a coding assignment or if it can be anything related to geomatics.

I also got to discuss with Even Rouault about it some days ago and he found it difficult to arrange... Maybe you can find a way!


The biggest issue is finding the time to mentor you. I may also be a bit of a hurdle to sort out the formalities but that can be worked out, I am sure.

When is this internship supposed to be carried out?

/Kristian

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