Hi Todd, you can join. Everyone is welcome. GDAL FFI integration would be great, but this is a lot of work I guess.
Regards, On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:34 AM Todd Blanchard via Pharo-users < pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > 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 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 > - ESRI ascii raster, done by Stephane recently: > https://github.com/Ducasse/ESRI-ASCII-Raster > - shapefile support by Hernan: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~hernan/Shapes > (to be moved to github) > - I found this project also: 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 > > Can we try to unite and maybe create a pharo-GIS organization on github to > federate our efforts? > > Cheers, > -- > Serge Stinckwic > h > https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich > > > -- Serge Stinckwic h https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich
