[gdal-dev] OGR WFS driver

[Frank Warmerdam]

Johan Nouvel wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I know GDAL has a WMS  and WCS driver, but no WFS driver.
> After looking into the mailing list archives I have found no references 
> to a WFS driver.
> For my job, we have developped such a driver (in readonly mode, but 
> write mode is planned) , based on OGR and its GML driver.
> 
> Is it interesting for GDAL/OGR users to have a WFS driver ?  If yes, I 
> could spend time to put our code into gdal source (actually it is 
> separate from gdal source because of a specific compiling process) and 
> then send it  in order to be integrated in the svn trunk.

Johan,

We are indeed interested in having a WFS driver for OGR - whether read-only
or read-write.  There has been discussion of doing this in the past but
there was never sufficient resources to pursue it.

I'd suggest preparing the driver code and submitting it as a ticket.  But,
assuming you are willing, I'd like to propose you as a commiter to take
care of final integration and ongoing support.  An existing commiter will
presumably also be involved to do some review and support.

I would like to see such a WFS driver use the existing libcurl interface
(as defined in cpl_http.h) if it doesn't already.

I'm also curious what you do for parsing the GML.  Do you process it through
the existing OGR GML driver?

Best regards,
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