Offer to Help with Development of Thuban

[Barry Windridge]

Hi Bernhard

Thanks for the welcome and instructions.

I am travelling at the moment, and I will follow your instructions when I
return home at the end of July/ beginning of August.

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.

I will also start on code to select shapes in one layer based upon selected
shapes in another when I return home.

Barry

On 6/27/06, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Barry,
>
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 03:03:42PM -0400, Barry Windridge wrote:
> >    My name is Barry Windridge and I am interested in becoming involved
> in
> >    the development to Thuban (but I won't be in a position to start
> >    contributing until the beginning of August).
>
> great! We are always looking for contributors!
>
> >    I am not an expert in Thuban or Python, but I have  written about 6
> >    exentsions for Thuban.  I have a broad progarmming background and I
> >    have a reasonable backgound in using ESRI GIS software.
>
> You should be fine helping us as Python is easy to manage for programmers
> and you seem to have done some work already.
>
> >    I am particularly interested in developing a suite of spatial
> >    selection tools for Thuban. For example:
> >
> >    1) select shapes in a layer based upon a user drawn shape (line,
> >    circle, polygon)
>
> Should be doable if the user drawn shape is not saved permanently
> and accuracy is not the major importance.
>
> >    2) select shapes in one layer based upon selected shapes in another
> >    layer (including buffered shapes)
>
> This looks like a major GIS operation, so it will be a bit more difficult.
>
> >    How do I go about becoming involved?
>
> Add an account on wald.
> Grab a pet feature, an issue or a bug and start hacking.
> Report your results here or on wald. Coordinate on the list or wald.
>
> Also try to get a SVN version to run.
>
> If this works out with smaller things, we grant you write access to SVN.
>
> If your contributions are getting really we might in the future
> think about a copyright assignment if we want to include them into
> main Thuban, but this should not keep you from hacking in any case.
>
> Best,
>        Bernhard
>
>
>
>
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