[OSGeoJapan-discuss] Integration of Japanese GIS formats into mainline GDAL ?

[Minoru Akagi]

Hi all,

2017-03-18 12:38 GMT+09:00 Hiroshi Miura(@osmf) <miurahr ＠ osmf.jp>:
> Hi Minoru,
>
> Thank you for your primary effort in HackFest.
>  zero to one ;(c) paypal mafia :)  is an one of  greatest things
> and I'd like to express appreciation.
> ありがとうございます。
>
> On 2017年03月18日 11:26, Minoru Akagi wrote:
>> Hi Miura-san, Even and all,
>>
>> The FGD schema has been updated many times. Frankly, GML is too
>> complex. It is extremely difficult to create a software that fully
>> supports all the files witten in the language. We need to avoid
>> breaking the GML driver compatibiilty with the data formats of other
>> countries. Tinkered driver code will burden developers and maintainers
>> (sorry! :-<).
> It is because we need more test data and test cases  not to break other work.
> GDAL is a collaborative work and is a platform to help each other over countries.
>
> Please don't shame but let's gather your and Japanese community
> to contribute to the code.  Tinkered code can be forged
> like Japanese sword artisans team by pushing, pulling, hardening and patching:)
>
> Ok, it is true  GML spec is very complex and GSI's crafted specification is not stable.
> There is a good chance to put our ideas to separate these complexity from the code.
>
> GMLAS is an approach toward this idea.

Anyone tested the GMLAS driver with FGD files? Probably the way to go.

Minoru