[Gdal-dev] Arc Binary Coverages

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 11/14/05, Craig Miller <craig.miller at spatialminds.com> wrote:
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> Is there a reason why the Arc Binary Coverage driver uses the Coverage
> directory instead of the Workspace that is traditionally used in Arc/Info?

Craig,

I think part of the problem is that neither Daniel or I were Arc/Info users
so we weren't familiar with normal techniques.   Of course, it isn't
a forgone conclusion that we would have treated a workspace as
a datasource even then, but we might have.

Best regards,

> E.g. I would have expected to pass a directory to the workspace like
> /data/county and receive back a list of coverages in that workspace such as:
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> Lakes – Type:Polygon
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> Lakes – Type:Point (Polygon Labels)
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> Lakes – Type:Linestring (Polygon boundary with line topology built)
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> Roads – Type:Linestring
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> Etc.
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> Instead it asks for a path to the coverage /data/county/lakes and returns
> layers named things such as ARC.
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