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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Maybe something that could be coordinated with efforts in the QGIS-project:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/CAD-import-project-funding-state-tt5256669.html">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/CAD-import-project-funding-state-tt5256669.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Stefan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> gdal-dev [mailto:gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>?????? ????????? ?????????<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 16. mars 2016 13:41<br>
<b>To:</b> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gdal-dev] GSoC 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hello everyone</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I am a second year student at Saint-Petersburg </span></span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ITMO
University</span></span><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, Russia. For GSoC 2016 I would like to work on DWG support in GDAL.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Overall idea</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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 </span></span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">libdwg (abandoned), libredwg
(GPLv3 incompatible with X/MIT).</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-ix7fdi7tptxnbof6"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Technical details</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I plan to use the exist</span></span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ing</span></span><span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> DXF
driver as origin for DWG driver. The driver will not have any third-party dependencies. First of all I'll study ODA DWG specification and how DXF driver works. Than I plan to create DWG driver s</span></span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">kel</span></span><span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">eton.
And final</span></span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">l</span></span><span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">y
code some scope of fun</span></span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">c</span></span><span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">tionality
(will be defined later). I'll be grateful if somebody share some dwg test files with common cases.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-ix7fdi7tptxnbof6"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Possible problems</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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. </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Currently I'm familiarizing myself with GDAL source tree, compilation etc. </span></span><span class="author-g-ix7fdi7tptxnbof6"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I'll
send another email with some progress on other GDAL issues I was trying to fix.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I'm excited about the opportunity and hope to be useful for the project</span></span><span class="author-g-ix7fdi7tptxnbof6"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">!</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Cheers,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Alexander</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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