[gdal-dev] processing map styles with OGR tools

[Kay F. Jahnke]

Hi group!

I'm working on a large corpus of historical map data (the CTRN of the 
Piedmont Region in Italy). To visualize the data (shapefiles) I have 
created QGIS style files. Later I wrote style files to make the data 
into a GPS map using mkgmap. Currently I am setting up geoserver to 
serve the data as a WMS layer. So obviously I have to write yet another 
set of style files. I'm getting tired of this and I wish I could just 
translate style files from one format to another. QGIS now offers to 
store it's styles as SLD, but so far I've had limited success in using 
the SLD files made that way in geoserver; they seem to be to QGISish and 
would need a fair bit of editing.

When browsing the OGR website, I noticed there was a section

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_feature_style.html

This sounds more like a proposal and hasn't been edited since 2011, but 
the idea is, of course, attractive. Is there any concrete code or are 
there any tools along these lines? Or are there tools from other sources 
for the purpose?

with regards
Kay F. Jahnke