[Qgis-developer] GSoC ideas

[Alister Hood]

Something that has been mentioned by a few people, and would probably be very popular, I described like this:

"Vector editing/geoprocessing tools or whatever they are called, like the ones found in the Mapinfo 'Object' menu - i.e. similar to ftools, but taking sets of selected features as inputs, instead of whole layers."
http://woostuff.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/the-things-i-would-like-to-see-in-qgis-what-are-yours/
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2011-May/012041.html

Later in that second thread someone also mentioned the following; I think other people have also made similar requests/suggestions:

"I guess implementing topology rules and visualizing the existing errors would be a way to identify and correct problems like polygon overlapping.  It might already exist some code."

This second idea would probably require more research and thinking about exactly what to do.  

I think both these ideas are complementary, and could perhaps be done in a single project.  But I guess they are also features that might be able to attract other sponsors - you might think it is better to use Google money to do something which is unlikely to get sponsorship otherwise.

Regards,
Alister


Somebody started working on a plugin similar to this (early last year I think), but it didn't get very far.

> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:31:02 +0100
> From: jr.morreale at enoreth.net
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> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:03:15 +0200, Alexander Bruy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Google Summer of Code 2012 is announced few weeks ago and as far as
> > I know OSGeo will participate. Hope QGIS will participate too. I 
> > started
> > wiki page for collecting ideas [0]
> >
> > Maybe we should announce also to the user list asking for ideas too
> >
> > [0] http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012
>
> Hi,
>
> how about these projects :
>
> 1. Update and merge the multithread branch
>
> 2. QGIS, Valgrind & Co
>
> Both would get the student to put its hand in all the dark corners of 
> QGIS and both would produce a positive and visible impact.
>
> Regards,
> Jean-Roc