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.
• Parsing of proj strings. Switching from the hand-coded parser to flex-generated parser might yield some improvement.

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
• coordinating and improving msautotest (what gets added, when, etc.)
• WMS 1.3.0 (implementation, use of libxml2)
• work on http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2531

GDAL

• ?

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

GEOS

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

libLAS

• Supporting inline streaming compression
• Win64 builds