[gdal-dev] GSoC 2016

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Alexander,

On Wed, 16. Mar 2016 at 12:40:39 +0000, Борзых Александр Андреевич wrote:
> Overall idea
> DWG  is very wide-spread format and it seems like there is a lot of requests
> for a good conversion tools from DWG to more common spatial data. I  think
> that current implementations of DWG support are not optimal. For  example
> libdwg (abandoned), libredwg (GPLv3 incompatible with X/MIT).

> There are near 7 versions of DWG format (R13, R14, R2000, R2004, R2007,
> R2010, R2013) with differencies in file organisation, so driver should be
> able to read from and write to all of them.

There's also libdxfrw that supports these.  It's what we will use to do a
DWG/DXF import in QGIS.



Jürgen

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