[Qgis-developer] GDAL 1.11 new formats

[Vincent Picavet]

Hi Larry,

Le mercredi 7 mai 2014 20:51:53, Larry Shaffer a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> GDAL/OGR 1.11 offers several new OGR formats [0] that need support added in
> QGIS's source. I have added the OpenFileGDB format (because it was simple
> to do) [1], but don't have enough experience with the other database
> formats to add their support.
> 
> * CartoDB : read/write support
> * GME (Google Map Engine) : read/write support
> * GPKG (GeoPackage): read-write support (vector part of the spec.)
> * SXF: read-only support
> * WALK : read-only support
> * WAsP .map : read-write support

Vincent Mora will be able to help adding in QGIS the necessary parts (if any) 
for the WAsP support, as he is the author of the GDAL driver.
Ping him to coordinate the effort.
Vincent

> 
> Would anyone be willing to help add support for those? Looks like in
> addition to qgsogrprovider.cpp's createFilters( QString type ) that
> QgsVectorFileWriter::initMetaData() also needs updated.
> 
> IMO, it would be good to then backport these to release-2.2 branch as well,
> so current users may benefit from the new formats. I could add my commit,
> but seems like it would be better to add full GDAL/OGR 1.11 support at once
> to that branch, excepting some formats if they will need more extensive
> support added first.
> 
> [0] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.0-News
> [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/a096cf4
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Larry