[Qgis-developer] GDAL Python Bindings

[Martin Dobias]

Hi again,

I've been thinking a lot about the situation and I'm getting convinced
that supporting only GDAL would be the best solution:
- in case of need for some special data there could be possibility to
import them and handle with GDAL backend. My idea was originally that
if we have several data providers for vector data, the same should be
applied for rasters, however I didn't realize that GDAL comes with
much more functionality than just to read/write raster files
- with some help from GDAL developers we could take a look at the
raster subsystem in QGIS and find out how to make it better

There is currently some refactorization work going on in QGIS rasters
area so nowadays is the good time to make decisions. In fact I have
dug in myself nearly to all pieces of code in QGIS but rasters are
somehow still a black box for me since I never use raster data, thus
it would be wiser if QGIS raster crew put their opinions to the
discussion...

Btw. thanks Frank for the brief overview of raster support in other
GIS systems and I completely agree with your <EmpassionedExhortation>
section :-)

Regards
Martin