[gdal-dev] Killing GME driver ?

[Wolf Bergenheim]

Hi,

Let's not be hasty here.

The GME driver will become more important now that GME is going down, since
people will possibly be using the GME driver to migrate their data from GME
to what ever other service / platform they are moving to. I think we should
still keep it around for one more year. I suppose I could maintain a patch
for the GDAL driver.  Do what other mechanisms to add a GDAL driver? Did
you mean to only have it live in the 1.11 branch? That should be only
mildly irritating.

Best Regards,
Wolf Bergenheim


On 26 January 2015 at 20:52, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just saw news here and there (*) that Google Maps Engine will be
> discontinued in January 2016 (couldn't find an official statement from
> Google
> however, apart from an email quoted by others...). So I was wondering if
> there
> was a point in keeping the driver in trunk or if it should be just be
> killed ?
>
> If so, GDAL 2.0 would probably be the first version to remove an existing
> driver : cool ;-)! We could probably do the same with a few drivers for
> esoteric old formats, but it's difficult to know for sure which ones are
> completely unused.
>
> Even
>
> (*) http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-maps-engine-
> deprecated.html
> <http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-maps-engine-deprecated.html>
>
> --
> Spatialys - Geospatial professional services
> http://www.spatialys.com
>
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