[gdal-dev] New OGR Driver

[Even Rouault]

Selon Leonardo Piga <leonardo.piga at gmail.com>:

Leonardo,

the general way to proceed and a few recommandations are described here :
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/HowToContribute

I'm just curious : does this effort of creating maps for Brazilian cities relate
somehow with the OpenStreetMap project or is it a completely autonomous effort ?

I've just also noticed that the gpsbabel project handles the GTM format
(http://www.gpsbabel.org/capabilities.html). Did you consider using it instead,
or was the direct integration of the GTM format inside OGR more convenient for
you ?

Just speaking loud : it might be interesting to have a pseudo gpsbabel driver in
OGR. That would offer 'for free' all the formats gpsbabel handles to OGR.
Technically speaking, gpsbabel being an executable and not a library, OGR would
probably need to fork the gpsbabel executable and use the GPX format as an
exchange format between both software. One inconvenience I see when using
gpsbabel is that it has no format autodetection capability. So the syntax could
be for example "ogrinfo GPSBABEL:gtm:my_file.gtm" and this would execute
"gpsbabel -w -r -t -i gtm -f -i gtm -f my_file.gtm -o gpx -F tempfile.gpx". Or
the subformat autodetection capability could be added in the OGR gpsbabel driver
for a few selected formats.

Best regards,
Even

> Hello,
>
> I'm implementing a new driver for OGR. The driver is responsible for
> handling with GPSTrackMaker files <http://www.gpstm.com>. GTM files.
>
> This program is extensively used in Brazil on a project called
> Tracksource. This community makes maps from Brazilian cities and
> distributes them freely for using on GPS devices. The project is
> collaborative and the users develop the maps.
>
> Each developer is responsible for one or more cities. Some developers
> receive the maps from their city hall office (this is my case);
> however, it doesn't give the maps on our preferable format. The
> developer has to convert it. That's why I'm implement this driver.
>
> The driver is reading the gtm a files already. I want to share my
> effort, so that other people can use my driver.
> Is it possible to make my driver available with OGR?
>
> Thank you
> --
> Leonardo de Paula Rosa Piga
> http://lampiao.lsc.ic.unicamp.br/~piga
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