[Qgis-developer] GSoC: GDAL/OGR frontend plugin?

[godofredo contreras]

Hi Florian:

 

Are you considering the export between formats for GDAL

in your GDAL frontend?.

 

Regards

Godofredo Contreras

 
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:08:14 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] GSoC: GDAL/OGR frontend plugin?
> From: fhillen at uni-osnabrueck.de
> To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> 
> Hi Ian,
> 
> I'm currently working on a GDAL frontend. In the first step it includes
> only the warp / reproject part, but it is designed to be expanded
> afterwards.
> 
> I think that the ogr plugin is very intuitive, but maybe that just my
> opinion ;)
> 
> Best regards,
> Florian
> 
> 
> 
> > Hello all,
> > I'm looking for a good Google Summer of Code project. Having used QGIS and
> > being a proficient Python/GIS programmer I think its the perfect fit. I
> > did
> > some googling and saw that there is already some interest in a GDAL/OGR
> > front end, but I would really like to take this full on. The OGR-converter
> > plugin is not complete, as it can't do CRS transforms, and I hate to say I
> > don't find it very intuitive. Furthermore I think a lot of the GDAL/OGR
> > functionality should be able to be done "in-place" on layers, so one could
> > easily create a new layer from an existing one.
> >
> > I think unifying CRS related options could also go a long way, using GDAL
> > to
> > support more than just proj4 definitions and being able to create a custom
> > CRS from any place that you can select them.
> > Maybe its because my single biggest headache in learning GIS was dealing
> > with projections, and now that I understand them through the command line
> > I
> > want to make it easier on others to deal with them. I think QGIS can be
> > the
> > perfect tool for this because it is already great for visualization.
> >
> > Please give me your feedback on this!
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Ian Johnson
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