<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Even,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for listening. :)</div><div><br></div><div>It will make my life easier in the coming year.</div><div><br></div><div>--Wolf</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 January 2015 at 22:01, Even Rouault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Le lundi 26 janvier 2015 21:54:37, Wolf Bergenheim a écrit :<br>
<span class="">> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Let's not be hasty here.<br>
><br>
> The GME driver will become more important now that GME is going down, since<br>
> people will possibly be using the GME driver to migrate their data from GME<br>
> to what ever other service / platform they are moving to. I think we should<br>
> still keep it around for one more year. I suppose I could maintain a patch<br>
> for the GDAL driver. Do what other mechanisms to add a GDAL driver? Did<br>
> you mean to only have it live in the 1.11 branch? That should be only<br>
> mildly irritating.<br>
<br>
</span>Hi Wolf,<br>
<br>
Your argument makes sense and we can/should probably keep it in trunk until<br>
GME is really unavailable. So GDAL 2.1 could kill it.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
><br>
> Best Regards,<br>
> Wolf Bergenheim<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 26 January 2015 at 20:52, Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>><br>
><br>
> wrote:<br>
> > Hi,<br>
> ><br>
> > I just saw news here and there (*) that Google Maps Engine will be<br>
> > discontinued in January 2016 (couldn't find an official statement from<br>
> > Google<br>
> > however, apart from an email quoted by others...). So I was wondering if<br>
> > there<br>
> > was a point in keeping the driver in trunk or if it should be just be<br>
> > killed ?<br>
> ><br>
> > If so, GDAL 2.0 would probably be the first version to remove an existing<br>
> > driver : cool ;-)! We could probably do the same with a few drivers for<br>
> > esoteric old formats, but it's difficult to know for sure which ones are<br>
> > completely unused.<br>
> ><br>
> > Even<br>
> ><br>
> > (*) <a href="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-maps-engine-" target="_blank">http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-maps-engine-</a><br>
> > deprecated.html<br>
> > <<a href="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-maps-engine-depre" target="_blank">http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-maps-engine-depre</a><br>
> > cated.html><br>
> ><br>
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