GEOS Report 2008
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GEOS
- Contact name: Paul Ramsey
Key Accomplishments
- Completed all code review and administrivia necessary to complete the Incubation process. Working on achieving a requisite amount of project activity to receive Graduation.
- Completed the 3.1 release cycle, which brought some great performance features to the community
- Faster predicates
- Faster unions
- Single-sided buffering
- Thread-safety
- More bug fixes and platform support
Areas for Improvement
- GEOS continues to struggle without sufficient maintenance resources, so activity and progress are relatively slow
- JTS has added some important improvements to speed and reliability of buffers and unions that would be good to port forward
Opportunities to Help
- General bug fixing and maintenance, simply learning enough of the code base to be a helpful contributor
- Documentation in-code remains somewhat weak. The C-API could use a complete Doxygen set
Outlook for 2009
- The community is not shrinking and GEOS continues to garner corporate interest
- The possibility of becoming the "GDAL of geometry" remains, with an associated increase in development time