== Google Summer of Code PostGIS Raster Ideas ==


'''1) Implement write support for the PostGIS raster GDAL driver.''' 

 Mentor: Jorge Arevalo (jorgearevalo at libregis.org) or David Zwarg.

 A [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL] driver allows reading/writing of raster (or images) data from/to formats like TIFF, PNG or JPEG.

 The current GDAL PostGIS raster driver supports reading of PostGIS rasters objects from a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database but does not support writing. The project includes proposing a driver writer design and implementing it. You will familiarize yourself with GDAL-OGR development (one of the most used open source geospatial package), geospatial imagery concepts, open source development tools and code in C.

Might be able to reuse some logic already present in the packaged PostGIS raster2pgsql loader.

More information about GDAL PostGIS Raster driver [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/frmts_wtkraster.html here]

Want more details? Check the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 OSGeo GSoC 2014 page] or write to the [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-devel PostGIS developer list].

[http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRaster Back to the PostGIS raster project Home Page].