Proposal

Hi Everyone:

My name is Ruoyun Jing, I am an undergraduate student in Northwest University(China) of Software Engineering.Although i am a girl,i really love coding and algorithms!!! I've coded many algorithms problems with C++ and Python,and got Bronze Metal in ACMICPC Asia Shenyang Regional contest. GSoC is really a precious chance for me to get in touch with open source software.

After reading all the organizatuions and their projects, I'm pretty interested in R-tree serialization and static map. Despite my lack of project experience,i will try my best to learn ,code and communicate with mentor!!!

Looking forward from you.:)

Thank.

• Understand traits

• Understand Boost.Geometry

• Finish Programming competency test of project 1&3

• Fix remarks

Fixed with remarks from mentor Adam Wulkiewicz.

• Obviously in main.cpp the code showing how your library is used is missing. You should also compare it with the methods implemented in Boost.Geometry.
• What is the purpose of deriving from model::point<CoordinateType, 3, CoordinateSystem> it's not used in sortest_distance_Vincenty() function.
• Currently the CoordinateSystem is passed as template parameter. Does it mean that the earth_point can be cartesian point?
• What's the purpose of the earth_point constructor taking NumericalType?
• Is passing NumericalType as string the best way? How it's done in Boost.Geometry?
• Does "Angle" mean "Degree"? Shouldn't the code for "Angle" and "Radian" be different?
• The earth_point constructor initializes the 3d cartesian point being the base of earth_point. Is the formula converting between geographic coordinates and 3d cartesian coordinates compatible with the model of the earth used by you in sortest_distance_Vincenty(), i.e. oblate spheroid. Or is some other model of the earth used there?
• Would it be possible to define a geographic point on some other planet with different parameters of the planet model (size and flattening of a spheroid) and calculate distance on this other planet?
• Would it be possible to calculate distances on various different planets in the same program?

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• Continue improve Proposal.
• Finish fix the test code review from Zheng Luo.
• Learn C++ meta programming.
• Learn map projection algorithms.