I am Honam Bang, a researcher of Korean Institute of Science Technology and I will be a master student of UCSD, USA from this Sep. I have been working with GIS research for about one year. Therefore, I decided to work on the 'GIS Enhancement topic' because I have a lot of interest for dealing with geospatial data.

My topic is 'implementing shp to sql command tool for MariaDB'. #MDEV-5813.

Most shptosql tools are enable to convert 3D coordinates as I know. The shape file white paper(http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf) specifies a lot of 3D coordinates like POINT Z, MULTIPOINTZ which does not exist in MariaDB's Geometry type.

Does my topic include implementing those type converting as well?

Thank you

Honam Bang