News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Watertight vector maps from raster images. Parent comment

Re:Watertight vector maps from raster images by chiubaca on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:56PM (#26764018)
Ive been wondering the same thing. especially when u see what can be done with WASM in apps like Figma. I believe most of the QGIS code base is c++ so i wonder if it's just a case writing a bunch of js, wasm glue code to make this a reality...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Watertight vector maps from raster images by Waterluvian on Saturday April 10, 2021 @05:20PM (#26765227)
That's a really interesting thought. I think it would be worth seeing if OGR/GDAL can be ported to wasm.

Next would be GRASS.

JSTS is pure JS and does a lot of vector GIS fine.

I think those three things and a decent UI would be an absolutely killer Web app for the general public to do more GIS.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Watertight vector maps from raster images by kylebarron on Saturday April 10, 2021 @05:56PM (#26765504)
Yep, here's GDAL ported to WASM https://github.com/ddohler/gdal-js
[ Parent | on HN ]