[gdal-dev] Registered Content-Type for VRT?
Kurt Schwehr
schwehr at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 10:33:10 PDT 2021
I was talking a bit with George Percivall back in November about MIME types
for Earth Engine w.r.t. STAC which is sorta similar. He pointed me to
Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos. That chat wasn't public, but I can forward
to anyone interested.
And a similar discussion:
Link rel type for links to run an example script
https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/issues/992
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 9:42 AM Sean Gillies via gdal-dev <
gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> After re-reading https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6838, I remember that
> "applications/gdalvrt+xml" would necessarily be a "standards tree" media
> type and would need to be published in an RFC. The "vendor tree" is more
> open. So something like "application/vnd.gdalvrt+xml" is more appropriate.
> If you want this, Howard, you should fill out the form linked in RFC 6838.
> It doesn't take long to get feedback and approval on vendor tree media
> types.
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:09 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> wrote:
>
>> application/gdalvrt+xml would just mean what the organization that defines the format is. People could reimplement that from scratch
>>
>> Note that there is potentially the OGR VRT format (that could go as application/ogrvrt+xml), but that is a separate schema and likely less used than its raster counterpart.
>>
>> Le 20/04/2021 à 18:04, Sean Gillies via gdal-dev a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Jukka,
>>
>> It's possible that ArcGIS has independently implemented VRT, but I think
>> it's more likely that it delegates to GDAL. I think it would be possible to
>> craft a VRT doc that would reveal some details -- such as one that uses
>> GDAL's embedded Python pixel functions to dump some system information --
>> but I don't have access to ArcGIS to try it.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 4:01 PM jratike80 <
>> jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Do you count ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro as self standing software or rather as
>>> applications that use GDAL? They read VRTs pretty well but for writing
>>> some
>>> developer tools are required
>>>
>>> https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/imagery/supported-raster-dataset-file-formats.htm
>>> .
>>>
>>> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>>>
>>>
>>> GDAL - Dev mailing list wrote
>>> > Maybe application/gdalvrt+xml? As far as I know, GDAL is the only
>>> software
>>> > that plays VRTs, and probably the only software that ever can,
>>> considering
>>> > the extensions and embedded Python stuff.
>>> >
>>
>>
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