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<span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Hello everyone</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">I am a second year student at Saint-Petersburg </span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">ITMO
University</span><span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">, Russia. For GSoC 2016 I would like to work on DWG support in GDAL.</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Overall idea</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">DWG is very wide-spread format and it seems like there is a lot of requests for a good conversion tools from DWG to more common spatial data. I think that
current implementations of DWG support are not optimal. For example </span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">libdwg (abandoned), libredwg (GPLv3 incompatible with X/MIT).</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">I plan to use the exist</span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">ing</span><span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;"> DXF
driver as origin for DWG driver. The driver will not have any third-party dependencies. First of all I'll study ODA DWG specification and how DXF driver works. Than I plan to create DWG driver s</span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">kel</span><span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">eton.
And final</span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">l</span><span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">y code some scope of fun</span><span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">c</span><span class="author-g-1gsqcyyk0048ft31" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">tionality
(will be defined later). I'll be grateful if somebody share some dwg test files with common cases.</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-ix7fdi7tptxnbof6" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Possible problems</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-71x7w22n47i98rui" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">There are near 7 versions of DWG format (R13, R14, R2000, R2004, R2007, R2010, R2013) with differencies in file organisation, so driver should be able to read
from and write to all of them. </span></div>
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<span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Currently I'm familiarizing myself with GDAL source tree, compilation etc. </span><span class="author-g-ix7fdi7tptxnbof6" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">I'll
send another email with some progress on other GDAL issues I was trying to fix.</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">I'm excited about the opportunity and hope to be useful for the project</span><span class="author-g-ix7fdi7tptxnbof6" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">!</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Cheers,</span></div>
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<span class="author-g-k8ktufi27jci09mw" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Alexander</span></div>
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