GEOS Report 2008

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