Planet SoC

The first official week of my ’summer’ of code was a succes. I managed to import the NASA SRTM3 data into Postgres. That is, the import is running at about 1 tile per minute while I am writing this. The result is available through Subversion and Git.
I think I am getting the hang of Test Driven Development. It would be great if someone can point me to a Postgres Python test tool. For now, I created a test database and wrote my own functions to populate it with test data for each test and clean up afterwards. In a month I will attend the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference in Melbourne (an OpenSpace event).
I mostly use PyGreSQL to connect to Postgres, but for large inserts I wanted to use the efficient Postgres COPY function. Psycopg2 supports this with its copy_from(table, file) function. However, this function mysteriously freezes, so I had to work around that.
Next week I am going to figure out how my application wants to receive a route. My original plan was that my application receives an xml request, but I just read the announcement of OpenRouteService so I will have a look at how they do it.
Tonight I am flying to Melbourne so I have some time to read The Summer of Code Mystery Book.