On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 03:11, Facundo Ferrin <facundo.fer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there!
Hi Facundo, > > > My name is Facundo Ferrin. I am a nuclear engineer who is taking a master in > Computer Vision in Barcelona, and finally I found my opportunity to > contribute to OSGeo by applying two things that I really like: Python and > Backend development . I do not know exactly what I should write in this first > email, so I'll start by listing the projects I'm interested in. > > I'm working in a company that is developing a platform for precision > agriculture called Auravant (https://www.auravant.com/). I work as a backend > developer and data analyst and I use daily almost every tool that you post in > the ideas: GeoServer, PostGIS, QGis. I'm also porting a tool for polygon > simplification called topoJSON (https://github.com/fferrin/topojson). > > --- > MY MAIN IDEA is to start porting GRASS tools into a python package that can > be used in other projects (beyond the client to use by command line). I don't > know if it's something you have in mind but for offline and automated > analysis it would be very useful. I particularly had problems when I tried to > simplify geometries since the geometry of polygons was not taken into account. > --- Your idea is not clear to me, there are already two Python library to work with GRASS. you can find some ideas in the proposal page https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2019 (for example Neweasy-to-useCLIandAPIforGRASSGIS) and https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2018 (Improve GRASS integration in QGIS 3) > Hope to hear from you soon! > -- ciao Luca www.lucadelu.org _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
