Re: [boost] [GSoC 2008] Geometry Library (spatial indexes, projections)

From: Barend (barend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-25 08:52:51

Hi Federico, Hartmut,

About a partial implementation of spatial indexes, in fact there is.  We 
can probably take the kd-tree implementation of last year,
http://photon.poly.edu/~hbr/publi/ilya-thesis/doc/geometry/index.html
as a starting point.

See also the mail of Hervé Brönnimann of 10-3-2008

Barend

Federico J. Fernández wrote:
>>  Given your (yet to be written) project proposal gets accepted I'ld like to
>>  consider mentoring it since I have got a lot of GIS experience/background
>>  over the last 10-15 years or so.
>>
>>  But I think that you should make your project proposal well focused to a
>>  narrow domain to be doable in the short timeframe provided by GSoC. Either
>>  topic (spatial indexing and coordinate transformations) are rather complex
>>  and I doubt these are small enough to be finished in 3 months (as long as
>>  you don't have any partial implementations available, that is).
>>     
>
> Hi Hartmut!
>
> Thanks for your interest. We don't have any partial implementations
> yet, so maybe it's a good idea to only take the spatial indexing part
> (that is more interesting to me). I only have some experience using
> other implementations and hacking them.
>
> So, I'll start with the proposal this days and start asking questions
> about it..! :) Hope you and Barend can answer..!! :D
>
> Any general advice?
>
> --
> federico
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