[gdal-dev] retrieving geometry vesus .GetGeometryRef() function

2013-02-16 Thread David Verbyla
I'm looking for documentation explaining when to use .geometry instead of .GetGeometryRef(() for example: testPoly1 = square1.geometry() testPoly2 = square1.GetGeometryRef() the seem to both return the same polygon object osgeo.ogr.Geometry; proxy of Swig Object of type 'OGRGeometryShadow *'

Re: [gdal-dev] Most optimal algorithm for contour correctness?

2013-02-16 Thread Jan Heckman
Hi, I've tackled a similar problem. Correctness of contour is a simple matter, except for one thing. That is the issue of saddles. That issue cannot be solved correctly since typically the data can be interpreted in several ways. This is also described in a wikipedia article (google for it, if you

[gdal-dev] GSoC 2013 Ideas List

2013-02-16 Thread Dmitriy Baryshnikov
The Google Summer of Code will be started soon, but we have no ideas to improving GDAL (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SummerOfCode). There is wish list (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/query?status=%21closedorder=iddesc=1type=enhancement), but it should be reformat for such tasks, which students