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

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I have used it sparsely but it seems that i cant make it work, so you might be right that it only works on legacy. 

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  On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 9:02 PM, Even Rouault<even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:    
Robet,
 
Can you confirm the information I got that the driver can only be used to convert legacy datasets (can they still be downloaded from web sites?) and not recent ones ? How much time still do you plan to use it ?
 
 Le 14/11/2023 à 20:53, nagyrobi_r--- via gdal-dev a écrit :
  
 
Hi all!  
  I use SOSI gdal conversion. So in case you are wondering, there is at least one user.  
  Kind regards,  Robet Nagy  
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  On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 8:41 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg via gdal-dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:   On 11/14/23 20:05, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
 > Le 14/11/2023 à 19:48, Sebastiaan Couwenberg via gdal-dev a écrit :
 >> On 11/14/23 19:16, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
 >>> ==> Are there users still using the existing OGR SOSI driver ?
 >>
 >> We don't have metrics for the OGR driver, but libfyba0 still has 513 
 >> users in popcon.
 >>
 >>  https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fyba
 > 
 > Looking in the same column in 
 > https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gdal shows that gdal-bin would 
 > have only 520 users...  which seems highly suspiciously low compared to 
 > the super specialized and low level libfyba.  I would bet that > 99% of 
 > installations of libfyba0 are because libgdal links to it, which doesn't 
 > mean that it is used for useful stuff (the other reverse dependency of 
 > libfyba in Debian is sosi2osm, which according to 
 > https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=sosi2osm, has only 3 users)
 
 sosi2osm was removed from Debian during the bookworm development cycle.
 
 The only rdep of fyba in Debian is gdal now.
 
 Almost all installations of libfyba are due to it being a dependency of 
 gdal, that's why it has 23911 installations but only 513 votes (regular 
 users).
 
 > What if people build a Docker image of GDAL from source and install its 
 > dependencies with apt install libfyba-dev: will that trigger a hit in 
 > popcorn?
 
 popcon is opt-in, there are only ~230000 systems running popcon out of 
 millions of Debian installations. Hence it's mostly usable to provide 
 insight into relative popularity compared to other packages in Debian. 
 Container images are unlikely to enable popcon, the Docker images don't 
 even have it installed.
 
 > I'm more interested in Norwegian flesh and bones users testifying about 
 > their use or non-use of SOSI.
 
 Me too, if there are none left we can also remove the fyba package from 
 Debian.
 
 Kind Regards,
 
 Bas
 
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