[Gdal-dev] Please suggest a vector format for wireless application

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Sun Feb 22 23:47:35 EST 2004


Fu Chen wrote:
> Thanks!
> I think I can take WKB as a candidate. There is a project call WKB4J which is a java WKB parser.
> Can ogr translate some dataset into WKB?

Fu Chen,

Note that WKB doesn't have any concept of attributes.  It is purely a format
for geometry.  OGR does include methods on the OGRGeometry class for converting
geometries into WKB format, or for creating a geometry from WKB.

Best regards,
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