Toronto Code Sprint 2009 Agenda

Theme
Toronto Code Sprint 2009 : The Need for Speed...

Performance is the universal feature, and the latest Geoserver vs Mapserver results indicate that there are places throughout the C stack that can use improvement.

Proj4

 * Run Mapserver under load and review where Proj4 takes a hit (everywhere)
 * Caching of PJ structs, Should make QGIS and Mapserver faster.
 * Possibility of a new/simple API + optimized database sitting on top of PROJ4 to replace current init files and address some performance issues as well as allowing lookup of additional information such as axis order of a given SRS (required for WMS 1.3.0 and other OGC specs)
 * bring epsgaxis axis flipping behavior into proj4 proper

Mapserver

 * Run the Geoserver benchmark tests under profiler and review results
 * Single-pass querying, will bring WFS speed up to par
 * Mapserver as Apache module, removes FastCGI instability and is potentially even faster, see #2565
 * Roadmap for 6.0
 * XML Mapfiles (#2872)
 * coordinating and improving msautotest (what gets added, when, etc.)
 * WMS 1.3.0 (#473)
 * resolving msOWSDispatch (#2531)
 * support for ITEM data types for WFS server (#462)
 * Discuss issue of Hiding/enabling/ignoring layers in OGC Web Services (see Trac wiki page)
 * Discuss coordinate axis order for WFS 1.1.0 (#2899)
 * OpenGL/Cairo/VtableRendering merge. Discuss some backwards compatibility changes implied by the rendering unification (notably on symbol orientation, and linestring markers)
 * Choose one of Steve's logos
 * Discuss better handling of resolution for printing maps

GDAL

 * Adding the ability to read z/x/y tiles (e.g. TMS, OSM, etc.) alongside the existing WMS reader support

PostGIS

 * Roadmap for 1.5+
 * New on-disk format? Aligned double?
 * New GEOS coordinate sequence to bind on top of aligned PostGIS structures?
 * Profiling and review profile results

PostGIS WKT Raster

 * Discuss WKT Raster API, roadmap and funding
 * Importer/exporter (raster2pgsql.exe, PGAdmin extension, new Paul's GUI, driver for GDAL, SQL importer function)
 * Discuss WKT Raster and PostGIS web site, source integration and bug tracking.
 * Discuss GiST index.

GEOS

 * Administrivia, what to do without a full-time maintainer?
 * Roadmap for 3.2?

libLAS

 * Supporting inline streaming compression
 * Win64 builds