[Qgis-developer] GSoC ideas

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Are there students around this year?
I'd love to but I'm not allowed any more...
ciao
Marco
On 02/24/2012 06:34 PM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> 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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