Bug#788560: ITP: sfcgal -- Library for ISO 19107:2013 and OGC Simple Features 1.2 for 3D operations

[Sven Geggus <lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sven Geggus <lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de>

* Package name    : sfcgal
  Version         : 1.1.0
  Upstream Author : Mickael Borne, Hugo Mercier, Vincent Mora, Olivier Courtin <infos@oslandia.com>
* URL             : http://www.sfcgal.org/
* License         : GPL2+
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : Library for ISO 19107:2013 and OGC Simple Features 1.2 for 3D operations

SFCGAL is a C++ wrapper library around CGAL with the aim of
supporting ISO 19107:2013 and OGC Simple Features Access 1.2 for 3D
operations.

SFCGAL provides standard compliant geometry types and operations,
that can be accessed from its C or C++ APIs.  PostGIS uses the C API,
to expose some SFCGAL's functions in spatial databases (cf.  PostGIS
manual).

The main reason for packaging sfcgal ist that some functionality in
Postgis would be missing without this library. See
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788092

I plan to maintain this package under the debian-gis umbrella as
suggested by Sebastiaan Couwenberg in the bug report above.

Regards

Sven