[gdal-dev] ogr shapefile viewer

[Mohammed Rashad]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Christopher Barker
<Chris.Barker at noaa.gov>wrote:

> On 1/6/11 9:19 AM, Mohammed Rashad wrote:
>
>>    Instead of looking for code, I'd rather suggest to sit down and think
>>    what you need. I assure you, all you need you have in OGR tutorial
>>    on gdal.org/ogr <http://gdal.org/ogr> website. The only thing you
>>
>>    need more is to pass vector data/point to rendering API you want to
>> use.
>>
>> yes Mateusz Loskot, i need this part. passing the vector data/point to a
>> rendering API.
>>
>
> It's still not clear quite what you want. If you just want to look at shape
> files, I'd use an off-the-shelf desktop GIS, there are lots, QGIS is pretty
> nice.
>
> You can also render shapefiles with mapnik or mapserver -- both are highly
> customizable and produce very nice output.
>
> If you want a library you can embed in your own app, and maybe customize,
> that's a different story.
>
I need a c++ library to just display an OGR shapefile. i need to embed this
C++ library in my application that what I need. Is that clear? If you need
any further details i will provide.

>
> For Python you could use wxPython and my wx.lib.floatcanvas. It doesn't
> understand shape files, but with OGR reading them, it's very easy to throw
> points, lines and polygons on the canvas, and be able to zoom and pan around
> to look at them.
>
> We've also got the "maproom" project:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/dhelfman/maproom/overview
>
> It's a bit stalled out now, but will be revived. It is designed to be a
> general purpose lib and application for interactive map data viewing and
> manipulation. It doesn't actually support shape files at the moment, but it
> does use GDAL/OGR and has support for points and polygons, so not hard to
> write a new plugin for shape.
>
> It's also using OpenGL for speedy rendering.
>
> HTH,
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
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Rashad
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