OGR - abbreviation?

[Michal Krupička]

Hi,
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From: "Frank Warmerdam" <warmerdam at POBOX.COM>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] OGR - abbreviation?



> Mike,
>
>  From deep in the main OGR page:
>
> ---
> OGR stands for "OGR"... its meaning is irrelevant today. The original name
> for the lib was "OpenGIS Simple Features Reference Implementation" and
that's
> where OGR comes from. However, since OGR is not fully compliant with the
Simple
> Feature specification and is not approved as a reference implementation of
the
> spec the name was changed to "OGR Simple Features Library" ... and the
only
> meaning of OGR in this name is historical. "OGR" is also the prefix used
> everywhere in the source of the library for class names, filenames, etc.
> ---

Thank you very much. It seems I am blind or my brain doesn't work as I
expect... i saw it on that page, but...

I am sorry for your wasted time.

Mike