Enhance KML support

• Project description

  The MSS software currently supports in a very crude manner the overlay of KML files on the shown maps to support flight planning. In the past, this was used to display FIR boundaries, highlight penguin protection zones, avoid military prohibited areas, etc.

The support for KML files needs to be enhanced in two major directions.

First, we need to be able to display multiple KML files instead of just a single one. This task requires designing and implementing a better user interface using the QT tools that allows to manage the display of several KML files.

Second, the support of KML features needs to be enhanced. Currently only the most basic features of KML are being supported. In this task, one needs to identify the most useful features from the KML specification and implement them in the MSS frontend software. Exemplary KML files from various sources of the internet shall be collected into a set of automated testcases.

• Skills: Python, Qt, KML, Matplotlib

• Difficulty level: Easy

• Related Readings/Links:

  • https://bitbucket.org/wxmetvis/mss/issues/475/improved-kml-support
  • https://github.com/googlearchive/kml-samples

• Potential mentors: j.ungermann@fz-juelich.de, c.rolf@fz-juelich.de