Re: [Pharo-users] GIS support for Pharo

[Todd Blanchard via Pharo-users]

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Hi Serge,

I would love to participate in getting some GIS features into Pharo.  I think 
it would be a fantastic platform for GIS.

My personal orientation is doing marine navigation (have boat with sensors, 
want boat to be be smarter about navigation).

My main interests is in being able to render S57/S52 formats.  There are a 
number of boat fans that balk at the price of expensive chart plotter computers 
and software.

They have given rise to some DIY stuff.  Some of it just rips code straight out 
of https://gdal.org - I think possibly a FFI integration with gdal might be an 
amazing resource.

I am time constrained for when I can work on this stuff but would like it a lot 
if we at least had some core data types for simple things like lat/lng, regions 
(polygons), and a decent general map renderer.

Anyhow, please include me in any conversations.  Navigation (both air and sea) 
are two things I have an interest in.

> On Jun 3, 2020, at 8:31 PM, Serge Stinckwich <serge.stinckw...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> there was already some discussion in the list about GIS support for Pharo 
> previously.
> 
> Working on CORMAS multi-agent simulation platform: 
> https://github.com/cormas/cormas <https://github.com/cormas/cormas> some 
> developers feel the need to have more GIS support for Pharo.
> 
> I know of existing GIS software:
> - GeoJSON by Zweidenker: https://github.com/zweidenker/GeoJSON 
> <https://github.com/zweidenker/GeoJSON>
> - ESRI ascii raster, done by Stephane recently: 
> https://github.com/Ducasse/ESRI-ASCII-Raster 
> <https://github.com/Ducasse/ESRI-ASCII-Raster>
> - shapefile support by Hernan: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~hernan/Shapes 
> <http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~hernan/Shapes>
> (to be moved to github)
> - I found this project also: http://www.squeaksource.com/gekon.html 
> <http://www.squeaksource.com/gekon.html>
> 
> I know that Etienne Delay is also interested by GIS support and propose to 
> implement OpenGIS model support: https://github.com/cormas/cormas/issues/139 
> <https://github.com/cormas/cormas/issues/139>
> 
> Can we try to unite and maybe create a pharo-GIS organization on github to 
> federate our efforts? 
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Serge Stinckwich
> https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich <https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich>

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