[gdal-dev] Killing GME driver ?

[Even Rouault]

Le lundi 26 janvier 2015 21:54:37, Wolf Bergenheim a écrit :
> 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.

Hi Wolf,

Your argument makes sense and we can/should probably keep it in trunk until 
GME is really unavailable. So GDAL 2.1 could kill it.

> 
> 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-depre
> > cated.html>
> > 
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