[Gdal-dev] Enabling PAM By Default

[Frank Warmerdam]

Matt Wilkie wrote:
> 
> +1, if non-developer can vote :)
> 
> As a matter of fact, just last night I was pondering for the Nth time if 
> I had the wherewithal to compose a feature request for a persistent 
> metadata feature be *added* to gdal. I had no idea there was something 
> already there along these lines.
> 
> Most of the classGDALPamDataset page is over my head, so I don't know 
> whether my particular interest is already in there or not. I'll 
> elaborate a bit: one of most useful parts of the ArcGIS metadata for me 
> on a consistent basis the "Process Lineage" section; exerpt below. If 
> this is accomodated by PAM, I'm all for it! If not, well, it still 
> sounds like a good idea. :-)

Matt,

Unfortunately, PAM does not address improved support for FGDC style
metadata with sections like process lineage and so forth.  One thing is
does do though is ensure we could preserve such metadata if we generated,
even for file formats that don't normally have it.

Best regards,
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