[saga-gis-developer] FYI: google summer of code project Qgis - SAGA Interface

[Johan V. de W. <joh...@gm...>]

FYI, perhaps this was already known, bu I just found out that Camilo
will be working on a interface to access saga modules (and other
geoprocessing tools) from qgis with a sponsorship from the google
summer of code programme.

I really think this is a very good project, merging the strengths of 2
great open source projects, (easy api and processing power from saga,
nice graphical user interface for editing, ... from qgis), so I really
hope this will be a fruitful cooperation.

Anyway, I guess that during implementation suggestions for
improvements will come (there already is one below), so perhaps we can
discuss on this list how we could implement them.

Regards,
Johan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Camilo Polymeris <cpo...@gm...>
Date: Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] SAGA Interface
To: Johan Van de Wauw <joh...@gm...>


> First of all: congratulations with your proposal and acceptance.

Thanks!

>If I
> had read it earlier I might have stepped up as a mentor for the saga
> side, but I've been too busy constructing a house and finishing my PhD
> the last month. Anyway, although I read that you are planning to
> implement the processing in a more generic way, I believe you will
> still be using saga a lot. So please get in touch with our developer
> mailing list: sag...@li...

I am subscribed to the saga list, sorry I didn't get in touch with you
earlier. Many things to think about during GSoC application!

> If eg some functions in the api which make parsing more easy are
> missing we could try to implement them (they would also be useful if
> somebody would write eg a saga arcgis plugin).

Probably other things will turn up, but so far, the only functions we
have missed are metadata about the modules: We want to distinguish
basic parameters from advanced parameters (with default options) &
organize the modules by tags.
I was thinking of getting that information from a wiki or generate it
programatically, if it is not supplied with the modules.

In case you haven't seen it, there is a discussion on the
Qgis-developer list, that starts here:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2011-April/014057.html

and a wiki page, where I have compiled some of the ideas:
https://github.com/polymeris/qgis/wiki/QGIS-Processing-Framework

Thanks for your interest,
Camilo