Hobu, Inc.

I am now off into the uncharted (for me) waters of independent contract consulting, and I’m currently looking for jobs. Here’s a list of stuff I’d love to find funding to implement:

• Oracle GeoRaster support for GDAL
• ArcSDE raster write support for GDAL
• ArcSDE vector write support for OGR
• Finish implementing and rolling out the next-gen Python bindings for GDAL 1.5
• External RTree support for OGR drivers that would benefit from it.
• QueryByShape support for ArcSDE in MapServer
• PySDE development
• General MapServer and GDAL development

Contact me at hobu@hobu.net if you are interested in working with me.

The GDAL project has historically been very branch-averse, and this has meant that all releases were a combination of new features and bug fixes. Another immediate benefit to the GDAL project of the move to subversion
is that branching and tagging is simple… it’s just another copy, and it’s allowed us to maintain a “stable” branch and selectively backport bug fixes. MapServer has followed this release pattern for quite a while, and I’m sure GDAL users will appreciate not having the ground shift underneath them just for a bug fix.

For more details on the release, read Frank’s release message http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2007-April/012533.html