[gdal-dev] ogr2gui - project development

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

nice idea.

I'm a Linux guy and I tried to compiled it on my Ubuntu 7.10 box. I didn't 
manage to compile it with wx2.8 (I'm not familiar at all with building with 
wxwidget)

I tried :
g++ App.cpp Dnd.cpp 
Frm.cpp -I/usr/include/wx-2.8 -I/usr/lib/wx/include/base-unicode-release-2.8 
`gdal-config --cflags` `gdal-config --libs` -o ogr2gui

but I get errors because DND is not defined. 
In /usr/lib/wx/include/base-unicode-release-2.8/wx/setup.h
#define wxUSE_DRAG_AND_DROP 0

I tried then to disable Dnd.cpp, but I get other errors about wxFrame.

If it was me, I would have chose GTK instead of wxwidgets (I'm a GTK 
lover ;-))

I've looked a bit at the source code.
A few remarks :
* I've the feeling that you're not launching ogr2ogr executable, but using OGR 
API instead. Right ? I'm a bit confused since there's a function that formats 
a string with ogr2ogr.exe in it
* you should maybe consider using the C API instead of the C++ API to be able 
not to depend too much of the version of OGR.

As far as features as concerned, I think that looking at all the options of 
ogr2ogr is a good start : SQL request, bounding box, choice of the layer(s) 
to translate, etc etc...
For output formats, you could propose the various dataset creation options
For database formats, you could propose the various fields that help people 
create the connection string. For example, for postgres, the database name, 
user name, password, etc etc...

On the screenshot, I see that there are checkboxes for append, update, 
overwrite. Some (all ?) of them are exclusive, so maybe radiobuttons would be 
more appropriate.
The "Projection" label shoud probably by renamed to "Target projection" if it 
is the case. Showing the source projection could also be usefull. If no 
source projection is defined, then it should be defined.

Adding a LICENCE file in the tar.gz would be good too. I had to dig into the 
source to see that it's GPL

Well, I think that's enough for a Father Christmas Letter ;-)

Best regards

Le Friday 18 July 2008 19:21:54, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> My company developed a graphical user interface (GUI) for ogr2ogr. We
> created an open source project called ogr2gui.
>
> We intend to make this application available to GIS users who aren't
> comfortable with the ogr2ogr syntax or looking for a fast, easy and free
> geospatial data translator.
>
>
>
> You can download the source code or the installer at: inventis.ca/ogr2gui
>
> Note that this is only RC 0.1 and only few data formats are supported.
> We'll add some more as soon as possible.
>
>
>
> We're currently looking for some people who'd like to get involved in this
> utility program development.
>
> We'd also like to get some feedback about the project.do you think it's
> useful? should it looks different? functions we should add or remove, etc.
>
>
>
> All comments or suggestions are welcome!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Mathieu Lahaye
>
> mathieu at inventis.ca
>
> www.inventis.ca