[Xastir-Dev] Thoughts on GDAL?

[Gerry Creager]

I just got back from the OpenGIS Consortium tech committee meetings. 
Good stuff.  The GDAL author was there, but we didn't get to talk. 
Still and all.... GDAL is probably a good plan for xastir 2.0.  Well 
supported, and friendly folk.  Good code.  It will be widely used in a 
lot of commercial code soon enough... or fragments at least will, with 
probably little or no attribution, but I digress......

I'd say it's worth a look.
gerry

Jack Twilley wrote:
> A lot of developer time gets spent on map layouts and stuff.
> 
> I was looking for a FreeBSD package for geotiff when I came across
> something called GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library).
> Basically it converts a bunch of formats to a single abstract data
> model, so it doesn't matter what you're handed, you just give it to
> GDAL and it gives you something you can work with.  It is licensed
> under the "X/MIT License" which is sufficiently open for our
> purposes.  Binaries are available for Linux and Windows, and there's a
> port for FreeBSD.  Anything that will compile under Linux today will
> easily compile under Solaris tomorrow, according to conventional
> wisdom.
> 
> Curt, this looks like it could save you an amazing amount of time and
> effort.  Could you look it over and see if it's worth taking
> seriously? 
> 
> The URL is http://remotesensing.org/gdal/.
> 
> Jack.


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