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wkearn / RasterIO.jl

Simple Raster Formats for Julia
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Move ownership to JuliaGeo #1

Open yeesian opened 9 years ago

yeesian commented 9 years ago

I'm curious: will you prefer to deal with just the raster format in this repository? If so, a more suggestive name (e.g. Rasterio, or GDALRaster) might be better -- feel free to go wild with the naming! It'll also help you scope the responsibility to something more manageable?

wkearn commented 9 years ago

I think since what I've currently got in here is a solid (but not perfect) interface to raster I/O using GDAL, it's a good idea to clean it up and rename it to something (RasterIO.jl?) and then we have room for a GDAL.jl package which implements an API for a wider range of GDAL functionality.

wkearn commented 6 years ago

I want to bump this discussion again. I haven't been super active in JuliaGeo stuff for a while, so I'm happy to transfer this to JuliaGeo or wherever else you would like it.

visr commented 6 years ago

Hi Will, are you aware of the more recent developments in visr/GDAL.jl and yeesian/ArchGDAL.jl? They currently provide a quite extensive wrapping of GDAL/OGR.

I guess this package either can be updated, or explicitly unmaintained/archived, with links to alternatives. What is your preference?

yeesian commented 6 years ago

This package was incredibly helpful in bootstrapping the design for GDAL.jl and packages that builds upon it, like ArchGDAL.jl which offers a more comprehensive scope of the functionality available in GDAL.

My suggestion at this point will first be decide if (i) you still want to maintain this package, and (ii) what functionality you wish to provide in it. If you don't wish to maintain this package, you won't have to do anything here.

If you wish to maintain a package for rasters, my recommendation is to re-write it to use either GDAL.jl or ArchGDAL.jl for building the gdal binaries, because Martijn and I intend to continue maintaining binaries and updating for subsequent versions of GDAL, and we'll be happy to pool efforts together.

It's also worth thinking about what user experience you'll like to achieve in this package that isn't otherwise provided by other packages, and use that as your guiding philosophy for deciding your priorities regarding this package.

wkearn commented 6 years ago

Ah, yes. I hadn't been following the various updates very closely. I'll add a statement about the deprecation of this package to the README and point them to the more modern packages.

I just noticed that RasterIO is listed here: https://github.com/JuliaGeo/meta/wiki/Existing-Libraries and I don't want anyone to think they should be using this to handle raster data in Julia

yeesian commented 6 years ago

Thanks Will! I've updated the wiki accordingly.

visr commented 6 years ago

Yeah indeed wanted to echo @yeesian that this package was incredibly helpful in bootstrapping the other efforts, so thanks for that!