[gdal-dev] Is anyone working on an OGR driver for IDRISI vector data?

[Frank Warmerdam]

>> The IDRISI raster format is well represented in GDAL, but OGR doesn't 
>> contain the IDRISI vector format. Is anyone working or planning to 
>> work on this?
>>  
>> If I (at the moment very hypothetically) should think of creating a 
>> driver - is there somewhere I could steal the database part from? 
>> IDRISI use Access database for storing attributes, and comes in 
>> Windows version only.

Sjur,

Assuming this isn't already addressed by Ivan's work, you can model
the access db portion on the PGeo driver (gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/pgeo)
which uses the lower level GDAL ODBC services to access and Access file.

Best regards,
-- 
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent