[gdal-dev] gdal / ogr drivers

[Even Rouault]

Le lundi 05 janvier 2015 14:22:06, Martin Landa a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> in r28290 I set up some metadata for OGR GRASS driver. In this light,
> I would have some questions:
> 
> 1) is it necessary to name OGR driver differently from GDAL driver (in
> this case "GRASS" vs. "OGR_GRASS")?

Yes, if they are not technically the same driver (which is the case here), 
they must have distinct names since the registration is now common among all 
drivers.

> 2) historically manual pages in GDAL were named "frmt_" and in OGR
> "drv_", this should be consolidated(?)

The actual name doesn't seem to be that important to me to justify the change 
and breaks existing URLs. No strong opinion though.


> 2a) probably manual pages for drivers which have both raster and
> vector capabilities (like GRASS driver) should be merged together?

They can certainly be linked together at the very least. I'd say it would be 
perhaps a bit too far to merge the pages when the drivers aren't technically 
unified.

And even for unified ones, like GeoPackage, I've created a new page 
http://gdal.org/drv_geopackage_raster.html for the raster capabilities, but 
mainly because the content of the vector and raster pages were big enough to 
have their own pages.

Even

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