Table of Contents
GIS IRC Meeting July 11, 2007 12:00 UTC
Agenda
- Brief Introductions
- What is already in Sahana: http://www.sahana.lk/wiki/doku.php?id=dev:gis_infra#features_of_the_current_gis_module
- Roadmap: GIS Infrastructure Wiki
- Google Summer of Code Work
- Direction for others who want to be involved
Minutes
Roll Call
- bitner – David Bitner, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- nfolson – Nate Olson, UK and Kentucky, USA
- nazgul – Mifan, Columbo, Sri Lanka
- SahanaGIS – Thinesh, Google SOC student
- SahanaGuest – Sriganeshan, Google SOC student
- nhv – Norman Vine, Boston, MA, USA
- Testbaudson – Christoph, Germany, Mapbender Dev
- flavour – Fran Boon, Oxfam
Raw IRC logs: http://sahana.telascience.org/irclogs/2007-07-11.txt
Summary
Mifan gave a summary of what has been done for GIS in Sahana to date.
- GoogleMaps module
- OpenLayers
- WMS Sources
- GeoRSS Feeds
- Currently layers are hard coded
Thinesh gave a summary of his work on the GIS module.
- Conversion of internal data to GeoRSS
Sri gave a summary of his work on the GPS module
- upload / download GPS data from units to server
- discussion to let stock GPSBabel or other tools handle conversion
- have one format that Sahana can pick up and pull into database
- need discussion on how to store the waypoints/ tracks in the database
Further research / discussion needed
- How should GPS information be stored in the database
- Waypoints just as float lat lon columns
- Tracks ???
- WMS catalog design