[gdal-dev] suitable test viewer for new driver

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Sat Mar 28 12:30:49 EDT 2009


Norman Barker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I have written a gdal driver and would like to hook this into an 
> existing viewer (public domain) to demonstrate the code.  The driver 
> makes a fair few changes to the GDAL API so it isn’t as simple as just 
> adding to the format list.
> 
> Would I be better to use openev or openev2, or perhaps a different 
> viewer?  Any ideas are appreciated, I would like to use a viewer that 
> compiles against the current GDAL trunk.

Norman,

In my opinion it is getting pretty hard to build OpenEV from source and
it's OpenGL tile based approach may not be very ammendable to the progressive
support you want to test.  I'd suggest qgis (http://www.qgis.org).

Best regards,
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