[Qgis-developer] Bounty on DXF output

[Bill Williamson]

Hi Team QGIS,

I would like to offer a bounty of sorts for further work on the ability 
of QGIS to export dxf. In the first instance, I would be interested in 
replies on what is able to be reasonably achieved.

The bounty is a Motorola XOOM Android tablet with accessories, bluetooth 
keyboard with touchpad, OtterBox case and cables.

http://www.motorola.com/Support/AU-EN/Consumer-Support/TABLETS/MOTOROLA_XOOM
http://www.otterbox.com/MOTOROLA-XOOM-Defender-Series-Case/MOT2-XOOM1,default,pd.html

It has been used briefly but I think it represents an attractive bounty, 
equivalent ~ US$450 ~$900 new. Free shipped to any reasonable address 
(maybe even the hackfest at Valmiera). It is surplus to my requirements 
(didn't get that project) and I hope it is a match with the desired 
improvements in the code.

The dev work:-
As far as I know;
QGIS has not exported useful dxf's for some time, owing mainly to the 
OGR/GDAL driver, see
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5451
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4973
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4381

This proposal is at least for the Windows build and ideally a plugin 
ASAP for the stable release, but will be satisfied with 2.0 if the 
roadmap matches. The test case would be outputting 2 shapefiles (point 
and line) with 2 attributes and 20 features being able to be read by 
AutoDesk DWG Trueview. Another resource is DoubleCAD (it is free and can 
read current dxf's from QGIS) but it will not be the testbed.

My impression is that templates play a role in dxf export. Perhaps a 
dialog could be used to point the driver to a template and in the case 
of this bounty one template would be available. Other workers would 
build there own templates and the dialog would allow them to select these.

My interest does not extend to dxf import,
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5383
however the bounty hunter is free to explore the requirements there. Nor 
is there any specific requirement for DWG export.
http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/spike/dxfdwg/drv_dxfdwg.html

I have little awareness of the issues on the GDAL side, but these might 
be start
http://fwarmerdam.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/ogr-dxf-upgrade.html
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4369

And of course will be support all beta testing etc. Please let me know 
if the scope of this request is reasonable.

Bill,
A humble user