<div>Hi Bernhard</div>
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<div>Thanks for the welcome and instructions.</div>
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<div>I am travelling at the moment, and I will follow your instructions when I return home at the end of July/ beginning of August.</div>
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<div>I have already written externsion tools to do spatial selections based on user drawn graphic objects - the code needs a bit of tidying up, but basically works - I have made some modifications to the Thuban core to make it work. I will share my tools and discuss my suggested changes to the Thuban core with the development group when I return home.
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<div>I will also start on code to select shapes in one layer based upon selected shapes in another when I return home.</div>
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<div>Barry<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bernhard Reiter</b> <<a href="mailto:bernhard@intevation.de">bernhard@intevation.de</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Barry,<br><br>On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 03:03:42PM -0400, Barry Windridge wrote:<br>> My name is Barry Windridge and I am interested in becoming involved in
<br>> the development to Thuban (but I won't be in a position to start<br>> contributing until the beginning of August).<br><br>great! We are always looking for contributors!<br><br>> I am not an expert in Thuban or Python, but I have written about 6
<br>> exentsions for Thuban. I have a broad progarmming background and I<br>> have a reasonable backgound in using ESRI GIS software.<br><br>You should be fine helping us as Python is easy to manage for programmers
<br>and you seem to have done some work already.<br><br>> I am particularly interested in developing a suite of spatial<br>> selection tools for Thuban. For example:<br>><br>> 1) select shapes in a layer based upon a user drawn shape (line,
<br>> circle, polygon)<br><br>Should be doable if the user drawn shape is not saved permanently<br>and accuracy is not the major importance.<br><br>> 2) select shapes in one layer based upon selected shapes in another
<br>> layer (including buffered shapes)<br><br>This looks like a major GIS operation, so it will be a bit more difficult.<br><br>> How do I go about becoming involved?<br><br>Add an account on wald.<br>Grab a pet feature, an issue or a bug and start hacking.
<br>Report your results here or on wald. Coordinate on the list or wald.<br><br>Also try to get a SVN version to run.<br><br>If this works out with smaller things, we grant you write access to SVN.<br><br>If your contributions are getting really we might in the future
<br>think about a copyright assignment if we want to include them into<br>main Thuban, but this should not keep you from hacking in any case.<br><br>Best,<br> Bernhard<br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>