[gdal-dev] Is the SOSI Norwegian driver still useful?

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

During the OSGeo code sprint, it was mentioned to me that the OGR SOSI 
driver (https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/sosi.html) is probably no longer 
relevant. Kartverket, the Norwegian mapping agency, which is the entity 
delivering datasets in the SOSI standard and which contributed the 
driver in 2010 has changed the format a few years ago and libfyba + the 
OGR SOSI driver haven't been updated to deal with it. It seems unlikely 
that Kartverket will provide updates to libfyba + OGR SOSI driver, given 
that the updated SOSI format is going to be totally retired in a near 
future. Apparently the future/new standard will be GML based, indeed 
totally different of the old custom SOSI format.

It thus seems its only use now would be limited to SOSI datasets 
produced up to a few years ago, which is a pretty limited use case. If 
there's no longer any use of it, it could be a good candidate for being 
removed.

==> Are there users still using the existing OGR SOSI driver ?

Even

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