GDAL SoC Ideas

GDAL/OGR Related ideas for the Google Summer of Code 2007:


 * 1) Write an OGC WMS (Web Map Service) driver, likely somewhat modelled on the WCS driver implementation.
 * 2) * WMS Specification
 * 3) * WCS Code
 * 4) * GDAL Raster Driver Tutorial
 * 5) Extend the existing KML vector feature writer to also support reading KML, and otherwise generalize this driver.
 * 6) * writer code
 * 7) * driver docs
 * 8) * OGR Driver Tutorial
 * 9) Implement a raster reader/writer for KML.
 * 10) * KML Docs
 * 11) * GDAL Raster Driver Tutorial
 * 12) Generally implement new file format drivers for geospatial raster or vector formats not already supported by GDAL/OGR. GDAL Raster Driver Tutorial, OGR Driver Tutorial, Existing Raster Formats, Existing Vector Formats
 * 13) Implement GeoPNG/GeoJPEG by embeding coordinate system and geotransformation information (possibly in GML) as chunks in PNG and JPEG files (see GML JP2 for a model of how this might be done).
 * 14) Extend the OGR SQL parser to support some OGC SQL spatial function operators.
 * 15) new feature Clip to Extents of other raster, paying attention to nodata (take Raster A, and clip out/erase all areas for which Raster B does not extend to or has nodata values)
 * 16) new feature to Clip by Polygon, as above but use a vector polygon for the selection area(s)
 * 17) OGR WFS read driver
 * 18) Update drivers to use modern CPL utilities