Serge I was thinking that it would be good to create pharo-gis organisation. What do you and the others think?
S > On 5 Jun 2020, at 03:46, Serge Stinckwich <serge.stinckw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <mailto: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 <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 >> <mailto: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> > > > > -- > Serge Stinckwich > https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich <https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich> > -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France
