== Google Summer of Code 2019 ==

**Enhancing the pgAdmin4 geometry viewer**

''Mentors: [https://www.up.ac.za/geography-geoinformatics-and-meteorology/article/2735602/victoria-rautenbach Victoria Rautenbach] and Frikan Erwee''

During the 2018 GSoC, Xuri Gong developed a geometry viewer for pgAdmin4. The new geometry viewer was released as part of pgAdmin from pgAdmin4 v3.3 ([http://www.bostongis.com/blog/index.php?/archives/272-pgAdmin4-now-offers-PostGIS-geometry-viewer.html read more here]). The viewer allows the user to view geometires directly in pgAdmin, which was not possible previously . The report from 2018 GSoC is available [https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/GeospatialDataViewerInPgAdmin4ForPostGIS here]. 

We have asked the community for ideas and suggestion to improve the geometry viewer. The mailing thread is available [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2019-January/027677.html here]. The main ideas for improvements or new functionalities are as follows:
 * Shapefile loader plugin for pgAdmin4
 * Overlay queries
 * [https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/3601 Highlight geometries]
 * [https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/3951 Basic styling of the features on the map]
 * Events, such as mouse over, to show attributes
 * Optimising for large data sets, for example, drawing only a subset
 * Rendering of raster queries
 * Other requests in the email thread

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