[gdal-dev] Source dataset during ogr2ogr

[Brian Hamlin]

This may or may not be related...

Support for atom:author in generated KML is important...

in reviewing some of the GoogleDev presentations on search and KML (and  
GeoRSS)
Data source/ownership Attribution comes up in several ways.. the main  
idea being that if a file is sitting on a server somehwere and is web  
searchable, then it can come up in a spatially aware Google search.  
Google is evangelizing such searches. However relatively few are  
incented to make their data world searchable without attribution (and  
links back to the originating site, too)

Thats the reasoning behind adding the atom:link and atom:author in the  
KML 2.2 spec.

-Brian


On Feb 29, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Christopher Condit wrote:
>> I'm working on the KML 2.2 update for the KML OGR driver, and I'm
>> curious if there's some way to get access to the source dataset object
>> from the created dataset during an ogr2ogr call. In this case I'm
>> interested in looking at all the feature definitions from the source
>> dataset s.t. I can create the schema correctly in the KML output...
>
> Chris,
>
> No, there is no way to do this.
>
> In the GDAL there is CreateCopy() which lets a destination dataset
> configure itself based on a source dataset but there is no OGR analog.
>
> Best regards,
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