On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:15 -0800, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > Folks: > > I would LOVE to see someone take over development on starspan -- I > did submit a OSGEO application but it came back denied, more or less, > because of lack of community support. There are a lot of bugs and user > interface issues still remaining that would be nice to get cleaned up, > but I'm not a C programmer and, while I developed the algorithm itself, > I was not the coder. > > If anyone is interested in working on the development, please email > me! If you all are not sure what STARSPAN does, it is a flexible way to > get raster data (raw or summarized) associated with vector coverages > (similar to Arc's zonalstats, although with more output types). E.g., > if you want to get the average pixel values from a SET of raster images > underlying a single vector coverage, starspan will spit out a CSV > containing the vector's original database, along with a column for the > average pixel value for that polygon. The algorithm tends to be very > fast, especially in cases where the polygon coverage is a fraction of > the raster coverage (which tends to be the case in many problems). > > --j
Jonathan + all, please excuse my ignorance if I ask something that I shouldn't: could you imagine starspan as part of GRASS? Something like "v.starspan" ? Kind regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
