[Gdal-dev] Driver for Garmin IMG formats or Polish Format

[Frank Warmerdam]

Alberto Agnoli wrote:
> Hallo everyone,
> 
> We made an application that uses GDAL OGR for reading several layers in a
> shapefile DATASOURCE and then plots them on the screen (using geocanvas), a
> map visualizer.
> We're now using some shapefile we exported first from a GARMIN IMG file with
> gpsMapEdit to Polish Format, and then with another tool we re-exported all
> the data again to the shapefile format.
> I wonder if some of you are planning to make an OGR Driver to read one of
> the above formats. We would like to start or continue such a work, and for
> this we're looking for suggestion/ideas.
> Thanks a lot, Alberto Agnoli e Giuseppe Cigala 

Alberto,

I am not aware of any work on supporting GPS formats in OGR.  Might it
just be easier to use GPSBabel to convert the GPS files into something OGR
can use?  Looking at GPSBabel that might be best accomplished through CSV
files.

Best regards,
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