[gdal-dev] Open source vector geoprocessing libraries?

[Jan Hartmann]

On 16-1-2010 3:01, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
> Instead, if this is a goal of archiving, I'd suggest archiving
> the original data (in a possibly arcane format), and a copy in
> a more accessable format likely to still be usable decades later.
>
That's what we are doing now. It's OK for practical purposes.
>
> The OGR VRT driver already captures most of this with my recent
> addition of schema support.  It could be extended to actually be
> a feature store.
>
> Alternatively, we could look at improving the GML driver to support
> capture of everything that OGR can represent.  This would have the
> benefit of being useful in non-OGR applications.
>
Both very good propositions, especially the GML one. I guess such a GML 
dump could be read back into OGR without problems? I'm not proposing a 
RFC (don't know how much work it is), but perhaps you could keep this in 
the back of your head ...


Jan