[gdal-dev] processing map styles with OGR tools

[Even Rouault]

Le samedi 08 février 2014 11:10:51, Kay F. Jahnke a écrit :
> 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?

It is actually implemented in a few drivers whose format supports styling, 
such as MapInfo, KML or DXF.

SLD is not supported by OGR however.

> Or are there tools from other sources
> for the purpose?
> 
> with regards
> Kay F. Jahnke
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