[gdal-dev] arcs and circles as OGR geometry

[Even Rouault]

Le mercredi 10 septembre 2014 17:07:18, Martin Landa a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> in VFK driver which I maintain I would like to implement support for
> arcs and circles which can be part of VFK file beside line strings
> which are more common.
> 
> It's seems to me that the only way how to process such geometry in OGR
> library is to approximate circles or arcs with linestrings, is it
> right?

Martin,

Yes, there's no suppport for curve geometries yet, and linear approximation is 
what has been used up to now (GML, DXF, ...). However I have reasonable hope 
to get funding "soon", hopefully before end of year, to be able to work on 
that.

Even

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