[Gdal-dev] Drivers for Golden Software Grid Formats (long)

[Andrey Kiselev]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0500, Kevin Locke wrote:
> > 1. The binary driver could be derived from the RAWDataset class, just
> >    like the PNM driver. It prevents code duplication and provides us
> >    with free of charge Create() method. Also RAWDataset has several
> >    optimizations for speed. But the min/max collecting ability will be
> >    lost here, of course.
> 
> That's a good idea, I hadn't even noticed that class.  The only
> drawbacks of not updating the min/max that I have observed is that
> Surfer (v8) uses these values to set contour interval and a few other
> measurement presets (I'll check more thoroughly this afternoon).  So
> it may not be a big problem to leave them untouched, as long as the
> data does not change significantly.  Do you think it is worth the
> speed/elegance improvements to have the driver subclass RawDataset at
> the risk of some incompatibility with other programs?

Well, I do not have any strong opinion on this. I think that particular
driver can be implemented in any way.

> > 2. Ther are people which can be allergic to things like
> >    'std::numeric_limits<double>::max()' or 'dynamic_cast' :-)
> 
> I've removed the dynamic_casts.  The numeric_limits stuff will take
> some thought in a few places, but I should be able to get it done
> shortly.

I am not sure whether it is portable enough. Mateusz may have more clues
related to MSVC embedded and MSVC 6 compilers.

> >> First, is there a portable file truncate function? [...]
> > 
> > It seems we do not have the one, though it can be added.
> 
> That would be appreciated.  For the ASCII format, grid lines are
> likely to change length on every write and setting min/max at the end
> of copy() can also require some shifting.  My approach of padding the
> end with spaces seems to work, but it is less than elegant.

Huh, I did padding in my code to wrote GRD files! I wil think how
truncate function could be implemented.

Best regards,
Andrey

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