[QGIS-Developer] Self Introduction and College Capstone Project Questions

Tue Sep 10 23:33:43 PDT 2019

Hi Eric, 

I am just a QGIS user and contributor, occasional Python programmer. I
am sorry, I can't mentor you in C++ development. However, I do think,
that, if you are interested in 3D development, that there is a large
range of possible improvements you can work on. 

The persons to ask about mentoring are the developers from
LutraConsulting (Martin Dobias, Peter Petrik) - there might be others.
We just recently had a Google summer of code project for improvements in
3D - see
https://github.com/ismailsunni/QGIS/wiki/GSoC-2019---QGIS-3D-Improvement

It would be nice, if your project would have similar results for
improving the QGIS project. 

As I mentioned, here are some potential improvements I can see about 3D
(I am sure other people have additional ideas): 

- Proper highlighting of objects when using the "Identify features"
tool: either stroke polygon edges with a hightlight color or show a 3D
bounding box in the highlight color 

- Allow setting camera position in 2D view for 3D view 

- Support of animated objects: moving objects, such as cars, boats, etc.

- 3D bookmarks (storing camera position and viewing angle) 

- integration with time manager 

- texture support for objects 

- build a repository for sharing 3D object models (such as buildings,
trees, benches, other objects) 

I am sure there are more ideas. 3D in QGIS is still young and that means
a lot of features are still missing. 

Greetings, 

Andreas 

On 2019-09-11 00:52, Kyoungduk Park wrote:

> Howdy Andreas, 
> 
> Thank you much for getting back to me so quickly. I am currently on the learning curve, trying to get myself familiar to the entire software. It will probably take a bit of time for me to go over most features in the program. 
> 
> From the topics you've listed, the 3D project definitely interests me a lot, since I've been practicing and programming computer graphics project using OpenGL for the past couple of months. On that note, if you or anybody can advise or guide me sporadically throughout the year, that would be very much appreciated. Please let me know about it. Thank you so much again! 
> 
> Best, 
> Eric Park 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:19 AM Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote: 
> 
> Hi Eric, 
> 
> Thanks for reaching out about your college project. 
> 
> I am not a core developer but a contributor and power user. 
> 
> We normally have GSoC project almost every year, but I guess your setup would also work well. I am positive that we can find a mentor (project sponsor) to help you get started and for occasional support. But the potential mentor probably depends a bit on the area of code you are working on. 
> 
> Are you familiar with QGIS as a user? 
> 
> Areas in QGIS that would benefit from developer attention, are: 
> 
> - 3D (e.g. proper highlighting for feature identification and better integration with 2D (e.g. show camera position in 2D, allow reposition of camera in 2D)) 
> 
> - Creating a 3D model sharing repository 
> 
> - Processing, incl. the graphical model builder 
> 
> - ETL functionality in Processing 
> 
> - Integrating the QGIS time manager plugin in QGIS core 
> 
> - the Report builder (e.g. create a preview mode for reports) 
> 
> - the Georeferencer (support for georeferencing vector features) 
> 
> These are just some ideas ... of course it depends on your interests, skills and more. 
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> Andreas 
> 
> On 2019-09-10 02:13, Kyoungduk Park wrote: 
> Dear QGIS Developers, 
> 
> Please forgive me if this is not the best way to reach out to y'all, and please do let me know if so. 
> 
> I am a current college senior majoring in CS at Tufts University, located near Boston, USA. For my engineering degree, I need to complete a year-long senior capstone project. Now, I am a huge fan of free software and maps, and I have been programming for the past two years on C/C++/Python. I stumbled upon QGIS upon searching possible projects, and have been thinking wildly about devoting my last school year to contributing to its development. I have been fiddling around with QGIS for the past couple of days, and will take a couple more until I get the basic hang of it. 
> 
> I currently have a team of a couple of CS students including myself, an applied math major student, and might possibly have a human factors engineering student. The only caveat right now is that we need a project "sponsor" who would simply have to communicate with my team and give feedbacks/guidance. 
> 
> We would really appreciate if anyone can suggest a cool year-long project/idea, while we also would be searching for our own. MORE IMPORTANTLY, IS THERE ANYONE WHO CAN POSSIBLY BE OUR PROJECT SPONSOR? Please let me know if so. Thank you for your time. 
> 
> With best regards, 
> Eric Park 
> 
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