[gdal-dev] Killing GME driver ?

[Wolf Bergenheim]

Hi Even,

Thanks for listening. :)

It will make my life easier in the coming year.

--Wolf

On 26 January 2015 at 22:01, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> 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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>
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