[gdal-dev] Motion: remove and deprecate a few drivers

[Kurt Schwehr]

Thanks Even! Hurray for cleanup!  Some thoughts looking at the list:

> SEGY

Makes me sad, but I've never seen anyone use it.  I've done seismic work
but never needed it.  +1 to nuke it.

> E00GRID

I keep running into E00 data from the USGS, but it's mostly been vector
data.  I'm +0 on removing this.  I ended up using GDAL on an e00 grid a
year or two ago, but that isn't much of an argument for keeping it.

> Deprecate JPEG2000

Is there something the openjpeg2 driver can't do that Jasper can?  Can it
be removed?

> TIGER

It looks like they don't use that format any more, so +1

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/tiger-data-products-guide.html


On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:07 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> OK, I amend my motion to keep GS7BG as non-deprecated for now. Let's
> mark GSAG and GSBG as deprecated and see if that triggers reactions once
> this is in the wild.
>
> Le 03/03/2021 à 20:55, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís a écrit :
> >> Is the GSAG format really used ?
> > What can I say. Because it's a simple format I used to have colleagues
> that used it for I/O of their codes and not rarely it ended up in my hands.
> But can't honestly say it's much used.
> >
> >
> >> Which one(s) are proposed by default as output of current Surfer
> versions ?
> > GS7BG. In fact GMT can read the simple variations (without breaklines)
> of this somewhat complicated format
> >
> >
> >> Can't Surfer export to other formats already handled by GDAL ?
> > Yes, some. Nc and ArcInfo ascii at least
> >
> >
> >
> > Le 03/03/2021 à 20:02, Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís a écrit :
> >> Even,
> >>
> >> May you reconsider the Golden Software drivers --- GS7BG, GSAG, GSBG
> --- ?
> >> GMT can read/write GSBG, but specially GS7BG, besides Surfer, GDAL is
> the only one that I know that is able to read this format. Maybe not in
> this list but there are still many people who use Golden software grid
> formats.
> >>
> >> Joaquim
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Even
> Rouault
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 6:49 PM
> >> To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> >> Subject: [gdal-dev] Motion: remove and deprecate a few drivers
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Following the discussions of past weeks, I motion to:
> >>
> >> - remove the vector drivers BNA, AeronavFAA, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA,
> SEGY, SUA, XPlane and raster drivers BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON,
> IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTv1. They have all been authored by myself and I'm
> not aware of them having been much used or being still in use.
> >> Implemented in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3373. They (driver
> code, doc and tests) have been moved to the
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers
> >>
> >> - deprecate the raster drivers DODS, FIT, GS7BG, GSAG, GSBG, JDEM,
> JPEG2000, JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR, GMT, DOQ1, DOQ2, FUJIBAS, IDA, LAN, MFF, NDF,
> SDTS, SGI, XPM, ZMAP and vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT,
> COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, MONGODB, REC, SDTDS, TIGER,
> WALK. They will now be disabled at runtime by default, unless the
> GDAL_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_DRIVER_{drivername}
> >> configuration option is set to YES, and will be removed in GDAL 3.5.
> >> Implemented in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/3505
> >>
> >> Starting with my +1
> >>
> >> Even
> >>
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