Hi, As I understand by playing with current support of GIS objects( point, polygon, circle, and rectangle) is similar to the Well known text format--correct me if I am mistaken. Hence initially we could support other GIS objects in WKT and support GeoJSON if time permits.
Thank you. Yours sincerely, Riyafa On 8 May 2017 at 23:31, Mike Carey <[email protected]> wrote: > I would also suggest playing with the current geo support in AsterixDB > (curretn types and indexing and functions in queries) to get warmed up. > Welcome aboard...!! > > Cheers, > > Mike > > > On 5/8/17 8:51 AM, Riyafa Abdul Hameed wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have been selected to contribute to the issue ASTERIXDB-1371 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB-1371> for GSoC this >> time. >> This being the community bonding period I am trying to familiarize myself >> with the code base of AsterixDB and to get a grasp of the task. >> >> I am under the impression that the package *org.apache.asterix.om >> <http://org.apache.asterix.om> *has the classes for handling data models >> for AsterixDB and have been looking into them to figure out the >> implementation details. Please correct me if I am mistaken. >> >> I have also been reading on the specification for well known text[1] and >> GeoJSON[2] and have been trying to figure out if implementing one of them >> would suffice (if so which one) or if both needs to be implemented. If >> both >> needs to be implemented we should decide which needs to be implemented >> first. I was thinking of going for GeoJSON as it seems to have a wider >> usage. >> >> Any suggestions on how I should proceed with the project would be highly >> valued. >> >> [1] http://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/12-063r5/12-063r5.html >> [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946 >> >> Thank you. >> >> Yours sincerely, >> Riyafa >> >> >
