Folks:

I would LOVE to see someone take over development on starspan -- I did submit a OSGEO application but it came back denied, more or less, because of lack of community support. There are a lot of bugs and user interface issues still remaining that would be nice to get cleaned up, but I'm not a C programmer and, while I developed the algorithm itself, I was not the coder.

If anyone is interested in working on the development, please email me! If you all are not sure what STARSPAN does, it is a flexible way to get raster data (raw or summarized) associated with vector coverages (similar to Arc's zonalstats, although with more output types). E.g., if you want to get the average pixel values from a SET of raster images underlying a single vector coverage, starspan will spit out a CSV containing the vector's original database, along with a column for the average pixel value for that polygon. The algorithm tends to be very fast, especially in cases where the polygon coverage is a fraction of the raster coverage (which tends to be the case in many problems).

--j

Dylan Beaudette wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Nikos Alexandris
<nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:05 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
Not sure if I should post this here. I have a problem compiling starspan
with support for GRASS.

# configuring reports no problems
./configure --with-grass=/usr/local/grass-6.5.svn

# attempt to compile...
make

[...]
src/stats/Stats.cc:232: error: 'sort' was not declared in this scope
make: *** [Stats.o] Error 1

The same problem appears also with a bare "./configure".
The same error appears with all of the three versions of starspan
1.2.01, 1.2.02, 1.2.03.

Perhaps it's not starspan-related.


Hmm. Check the archives for Jonathan Greenberg -- he is one of the
lead developers. It would be nice to get starspan into OSGEO so that
questions / code patches ect. can be handled in an efficient manner.
Starspan is an emmensly important GIS tool, but suffers from a lack of
developers, documentation, and bug handling.

Perhaps I should take these comments to the OSGEO mailing list... What
do you think Jonathan?

Cheers,

Dylan
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