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

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I got feedback from a user 
(https://mastodon.social/@lenas@fosstodon.org/111470467316641321) that 
the driver is apparently still usable for some datasets that can be 
downloaded from the national map catalog 
(https://kartkatalog.geonorge.no<https://kartkatalog.geonorge.no>). So I 
guess we'll have to keep it alive for now. But the Norwegian community 
would be most welcome to step up to maintain it to address its shortcomings.

Even

Le 23/11/2023 à 18:00, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
>>
>> However, I doubt that these organisations use the SOSI driver from 
>> GDAL/OGR to produce these files.
>
> They can't: the driver is read-only
>
> Discussing that topic with other developers today during GDAL 
> maintainer meeting, we could proceed with how we did in the past with 
> drivers we suspected to be no longer used but lacked data points. That 
> is in 3.9 the driver will be still there, but when it detects a SOSI 
> dataset, it will error out with a message indicating to the user that 
> they have to define an environment variable to enable it, and invite 
> them to file an issue on the bug tracker to make a case for keeping 
> the driver, otherwise without feedback, the driver will be fully 
> removed in 3.10
>
> Dan also pointed to that QGIS ticket 
> (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/50868) where a user reported a 
> crash when trying to use a SOSI file, showing that there are issues in 
> the driver and/or libfyba.
>
> Even
>
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