= Google Summer of Code =

GDAL participates in the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code Google Summer of Code] under the OSGeo umbrella. 

 * [wiki:SoCProjects 2007 Projects]

== 2008 Ideas List ==
These are suggestions. Students are encouraged to come up with their own ideas as well.

1. Implement GeoPNG/GeoJPEG by embedding coordinate system and geotransformation information (possibly in GML) as chunks in PNG and JPEG files (see GML JP2 for a model of how this might be done). 
 * [http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=13252 GMLJP2 Specification]
 * GMLJP2 Code: [http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/gcore/gdaljp2metadata.cpp gdaljp2metadata.cpp] [http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/gcore/gdalgmlcoverage.cpp gdalgmlcoverage.cpp]
 * [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1742] was an attempt to provide georeferencing to PNG, GIF and JPEG datasets. The format itself used lacks standardization, but the mechanisms used can be usefull.

2. [http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/frmts/png PNG Driver (using libpng)]
 * [http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/frmts/jpeg JPEG Driver (using libjpeg)]

3. OGR WFS read (or read/write) driver using existing OGR GML driver for feature parsing.
 * [http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=14145 OGC WFS Specification]
 * [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs The OpenGIS Web Feature Service (WFS) Implementation Specification] 
 * [http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_drivertut.html OGR Driver Tutorial]

4. Implementation of alternative driver for GML 2 and GML 3 using [http://expat.sourceforge.net/ Expat XML Parser]

5. Implementation of read-only WFS driver using GML driver based on the Expat XML Parser.

6. Develop a driver for GeoRSS
 * [http://georss.org GeoRSS specification]

7. Develop a driver for [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap] protocol
 * [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Protocol OSM Protocol Stack]

8. Develop a driver for IBM DB2 and its Spatial Extender
 * [http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/spatial/db2spatial/ DB2 Spatial Extender]

9. Extend [http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_geojson.html GeoJSON] driver with cashing capabilities when accessing remote datasource.

10. Development of Java bindings.

11. GDAL/OGR for Windows CE: porting new drivers

12. Development of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_%28programming_language%29 C# language] [http://www.swig.org SWIG] bindings for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Compact_Framework .NET Compact Framework] and creating test applications for it.

13. Creating an ASP.NET multithreading testbed for the GDAL C# bindings, by using the [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3dasc8as(VS.80).aspx thread pool] approach.

14. Development of bindings for new programming languages: [http://www.lua.org/ Lua], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_%28programming_language%29 Ada] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT GNAT]), ''put your favorite language here''

15. Development of GDAL Read/Write Driver for tiles, derived from [http://www.gdal.org/gdal2tiles.html GDAL2Tiles utility].