[Qgis-developer] GDAL 1.11 new formats

[Stott, James]

I second Stefan's comments. Having direct SOSI support will really strengthen the position of QGIS here in Norway.

We do a lot of work with SOSI, and it would be great to open (and eventually edit) SOSI files directly rather than having to convert them first.

James

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Fra: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] På vegne av Blumentrath, Stefan
Sendt: 7. mai 2014 23:36
Til: Jeff McKenna; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Emne: Re: [Qgis-developer] GDAL 1.11 new formats

Yes, though I have to admit that I have no experience with building GDAL with SOSI support on Mac, but I know that the underling OpenFYBA lib has been successfully build on Mac, so I assume the Unix build hints should apply for Mac also  for GDAL/OGR.

Probably I should note, that the free map data of the Norwegian Mapping Authority (http://data.kartverket.no/download/) also come in SOSI format (vector)... 

Cheers
Stefan

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From: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
Sent: 7. mai 2014 22:56
To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] GDAL 1.11 new formats

On 2014-05-07, 5:31 PM, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:
> The Norwegian SOSI format (Vector) is also "new" - or more precise 
> improved - in terms of build process in GDAL 1.11.
> 
>  
> 
> On windows, it is now supported as a GDAL plugin and available in 
> OSGeo4W. On Linux / Mac it still has to be built from source with an 
> external library dependency (https://github.com/kartverket/fyba).
> 
> SOSI is a bit peculiar, but it is the format of the official map data 
> in Norway, used by public authorities.  The driver says it is 
> Read/Write but writing is not fully implemented (yet).
> 
>  
> 
> It would be splendid to be able to open SOSI files directly in QGIS 
> (see also http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3708) and also write it once the 
> public mapping authority fully implements the driver...
> 

Hello Stefan,

That is very interesting.  Are all of your notes included on the GDAL Buildhints page, for Windows and Linux/Mac?
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SOSI

-jeff



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