[Gdal-dev] ogrinfo metadata output

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:19:54AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> >>I use "ogrinfo -so -al -ro <datasourcename>" when I want a "summary only"
> >>report of "all layers" in "readonly" mode.
> >
> >Yes. But it could to so without adding 3 parameters of 3 chars 
> >each :-) Just for user convenience, it's my wish to see the
> >projection metadata stuff immediately (as gdalinfo nicely
> >does). Is there a chance for that?
> 
> Markus,
> 
> Well, obviously it would not be technically difficult to make "-al -so"
> the default, but the summary information can be very expensive to
> report since it generally requires scanning all the features twice - once
> to count and once to collect the extents.  So I am not keen to do this
> by default.  I'm not even keen to report the projection information
> for each layer since if present it is pretty bulky, and in a dataset
> with alot of layers the user would immediately be buried in many pages
> of projection reports.  Likely all the same.
> 
> So, in this case my position is that I won't make the suggested change
> in ogrinfo.  Of course, in the new democratic GDAL/OGR, if you can
> convince the rest of the PSC I could be overridden.

Frank,

accepted! Thanks for the explanation.

Best,
 Markus