[gdal-dev] A new ogr driver

[Xian Chen]

Well, here is my confirmation:

As an authorized representative of Walkinfo Technology Co., Ltd., I
understand that the submitted code  to the GDAL project will be contributed
under the MIT/X license.

Thanks,
Xian


Even Rouault wrote
> Le vendredi 19 juillet 2013 03:31:12, Xian Chen a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm planning to submit a new driver for accessing Walk files, a
>> geospatial
>> data format developed  by Walkinfo Tech. mainly for land surveying,
>> evaluation, planning, checking and data analysis in China.
>> 
>> Walkinfo Tech. is a China-based company founded since 1999, origignally
>> focused on land surveying software research and development. Currently we
>> have our own geographic information platform WalkGIS, as well as scores
>> of
>> GIS desktop, mobile products based on it, including WalkISurvey,
>> WalkISurface, WalkCheck, WalkFu and so on. The company is also the
>> largest
>> strategic partner with Esri ArcGIS in China.
>> 
>> The WalkGIS applications use GDAL/OGR as part of its base libaries. The
>> purpose of developing the Walk driver on GDAL/OGR is to allow other GIS
>> products such as ArcGIS to access our data more easily and conveniently.
>> 
>> The driver I am working on is already able to get the information such as
>> layers, features, geometries, and spatial references from Walk files. Can
>> I
>> get the permission to submit it to GDAL project and share it with other
>> GDAL developers?
> 
> Hi Xian,
> 
> First, you should check with your employer that you can legally contribute 
> code to the GDAL/OGR project and submit it under the GDAL MIT/X licence.
> Check 
> the "Legal" section of http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc3_commiters  .
> If 
> this is the case, send an email to this mailing list where you will
> confirm it.
> 
> I also suggest that you read the developer guidelines at 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc8_devguide and check that your code 
> conforms to (most of) them.
> 
> For OGR driver, I would also recommend that you test the driver with the 
> "test_ogrsf" utility (not compiled by default, but in a custom build, you
> can 
> "cd apps", and then "make test_ogrsf" / "nmake /f makefile.vc
> test_ogrsf.exe") 
> on sample files in your data format. This will run a few consistency test
> to 
> check assumptions that an OGR driver should met.
> 
> Then, you can attach an archive with the code to a Trac ticket ( 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/newticket ), so that it can be reviewed.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Even
> 
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