[Qgis-developer] GSoC ideas

[Marco Hugentobler]

I fully agree. Porting the analysis code of fTools to the analysis lib 
would be a great gsoc project.

Regards,
Marco

On 24.02.2012 08:55, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> I'm a +1 to Alisters ideas.  I think it would be good to have a full 
> suite of tools for manipulating vector objects and layers.  These 
> tools should be ports of fTools to C++ and live in the analysis lib so 
> that they can be used in C++, Python and UI (Carson and I have talked 
> about this before).
>
> I think this project would be good as it is tightly scoped and would 
> be easy to mange in chunks. Merging would also be easy, even merging 
> as the project moves along as each tool is independent.
>
> Would should be careful not to start a GSoC project that is too large, 
> has wide scope, vague goals, or is to hard to mange in a summer.
>
> - Nathan
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Alister Hood 
> <Alister.Hood at synergine.com <mailto:Alister.Hood at synergine.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto:jr.morreale at enoreth.net>
>     > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] GSoC ideas
>     > To: <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>>
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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
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