New York Code Sprint 2010 Agenda

Theme
New York Code Sprint 2010 : Making things work together better...

Interoperability makes all the pieces more valuable. With multiple applications represented, this is a great time to fix nagging interoperation issues!

MapServer

 * KML Mapserver, merge David Kana's soc work into trunk - Mike Smith, Thomas B., Y Assefa
 * XML Mapfile format - Mike Smith
 * rendering plugins:
 * migrate AGG rendering, implementations for legend and scalebar, hatch symbology - Steve L, Thomas B.
 * migrate raster layer handling, but FrankW won't be here
 * object references RFC and implementation (e.g. sharing style or label objects) - Steve L.
 * buffer geotransform implementation - Steve L.
 * bug squashing party - Daniel M.
 * SVG Symbols support (what to do with the outcome of this GSoC project?) - Daniel M, Y Assefa.
 * see if we could make any progress towards a mechanism to show/hide layers in OGC services - Daniel M.
 * one pass query and OGC filter query (ticket: #3305) - Y Assefa
 * GSoC project ideas (applications will be due March 8-12, 2010) - Daniel M.
 * Improvement of the label angle follow algorithm (ticket 2221) - Alan B.
 * Improvement of the label angle follow algorithm (ticket 2221) - Alan B.

PostGIS

 * http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/DevelopmentDiscussion
 * lwgeom API discussion, naming conventions, new functions needed
 * lwgeom move to GBOX
 * srid = 0 becomes new non-srid
 * move LRS functions from ./postgis to ./liblwgeom
 * 3d object discussions
 * 3d object discussions

libLAS

 * see if there's anything I can do to help out on the Isenberg front (mpg)

GDAL

 * evaluate feature set of NITF driver (mpg)
 * think about JPEG XR a bit (mpg)
 * understand the 3-band-at-once fix for MrSID (et al) driver (mpg)

GRASS

 * fix r.in.gdal : subdataset handling (GDAL #486, GRASS #798)