[Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos question

[Dan Little]

I'm still worried about bindings support, it looks pretty sparse, making me lean towards using a native driver.


----- Original Message ----
> From: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
> To: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>
> Cc: GeoMOOSE Users List <geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 2:44:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos question
> 
> Or just use php_ogr and set the driver to SpatialLite...
> 
> > We could also look at porting to SpatiaLite as another option... not quite
> > as flexible for some things but definitely fixes a few problems with using
> > a shapefile as a dependency.  Might make Jim happier because we could
> > support text fields with more than 255 characters....
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: Brent Fraser 
> >> To: Dan Little 
> >> Cc: GeoMOOSE Users List 
> >> Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 2:24:19 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos
> >> question
> >>
> >> I've attached the write example.  It doesn't look too bad (as long as it
> >> works).
> >>
> >> > Oh I know OGR can do it, it's a matter of whether or not there are PHP
> >> > binding that make those capabilities useful.
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>From: John Callahan
> >> >>To: bfraser at geoanalytic.com
> >> >>Cc: Dan Little ; GeoMOOSE Users List
> >> >>
> >> >>Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 2:12:20 PM
> >> >>Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos
> >> question
> >> >>
> >> >>It also looks like OGR can create simple DBF files by using the ESRI
> >> >> Shapefile driver and specifying the SHPT option as null.  Haven't
> >> tried
> >> >> it though.
> >> >>
> >> >>http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_shapefile.html
> >> >>
> >> >>- John
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Brent Fraser
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>>>Looking at the file dates at
> >> >>>http://dl.maptools.org/dl/php_ogr/
> >> >>>>>makes me skeptical about binaries being available in a timely
> >> >>>>> fashion...
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>>But the source is included in gdal distribution (swig/php)
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>>> I haven't used the OGR/PHP bindings, if they are reasonable then
> >> >>>>>> yes, but
> >> >>>>>> I *thought* OGR only did standard SWIG bindings (perl, python,
> >> >>>>>> ruby).