[Phpmyadmin-devel] GSoC 2011 Proposal: OpenGIS support

[Milosz Lewandowski]

Thanks for all your comments :-) very useful and motivating.

Great idea with background in editor. I suppose it will be made in such way.

So now I am finishing my proposal and I will submit it soon :-)

BW, Milosz



2011/4/6 Michal Čihař <michal at cihar.com>

> Hi
>
> Dne Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:23:26 +0200
> Milosz Lewandowski <milosz.lewandowski at gmail.com> napsal(a):
>
> > my name is Miłosz Lewandowski and I am studying Theoretical Computer
> Science
> > at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. I would like to participate
> in
> > GSoC 2011 and I think that I have interesting proposal regarding OpenGIS
> > support. But first, before I will send the proposal, I have some
> question.
> >
> > 1. In MySQL there is something like spatial indexes, I suppose it would
> be
> > good if I implemented them also?
>
> Definitely.
>
> > 2. I suppose that simple graphical editor for spatial datatypes will be
> good
> > idea. But I don't think that connecting pma only with some maps web
> > application like Google Maps will be appropiate as many users use spatial
> > datatypes in theoretical aspects or even not to geographical purposes,
> but
> > only geometrical. I suppose that the best way will be graphical editor
> > divided into two parts: geometrical and geographical (of course not named
> > like that). Will it be accepted?
>
> Having option to use maps is welcome, I think the editor should be
> basically same, just allow to enable background with maps.
>
> > 3. What about GEOMETRY_COLUMNS metadata view? I quite can't see where I
> can
> > put it in PMA in such way that it won't disturb users that don't use
> spatial
> > features at all. Perhaps the best solution will be to ommit this feature,
> am
> > I right?
>
> I don't see why it should be disturbing...
>
> > And one more question not connected with proposal: there is some lack of
> > bugs on bugtracker, connected with work that is required for my proposal
> > (php). I see mostly gui bugs and closed bugs ;] What are the chances of
> > being accepted without any patch submitted?
>
> Rather low and I think there is enough bugs to fix :-)
>
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