Similar to the Perl DBI, GISI is an interface layer providing communication between Perl scripts utilizing GISI and drivers that provide the actual access to the sources of spatial data. All efforts were made to keep GISI thin and to limit its scope to data access purposes. GISI is intended to be a glue between various pieces of GIS software and libraries written in a variety of programming languages including, but not limited to, Perl.

GISI is a work in progress and is still in its early stages. The GISI API is far from being final and its current release is mostly intended to elicit comments from the GIS programmers' community on the usability and utility of the framework. The API is not stable and can experience significant changes in the future.

General Information

• Interested parties are invited to sign up for the gisi-pm mailing list. This list is very low volume, with announcements being released no more often than once a week - and only the project administrator is able to post to this list.

Papers and Presentations

• Presentation at the 31st meeting of the OpenGIS Consortium (Munich, June 2000) [pdf slideshow]
• Presentation at the Eighth International Symposium of ACMGIS of The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) (Washington, DC, November 2000) [pdf slideshow and pdf paper]

Developer's Information

• If you are interested in joining the development team, follow this link to the project management page.
• There is also a forum for the development team to discuss current issues.

Problems? Questions?

mail to: srk@users.sourceforge.net

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