[QGIS-Developer] QEP 209: Expose OGR feature styles via a new "Embedded styling" renderer

[Nyall Dawson]

Hi all,

Please see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/209
for a newly filed QGIS Enhancement Proposal: "Expose OGR feature
styles via a new "Embedded styling" renderer".

Some vector data formats have native support for embedding feature
styling information, such as MapInfo TAB files. These formats allow
embedded symbology to be set on a feature-by-feature basis. This
proposal concerns exposing this per-feature styling information via
the QGIS API and creation of a new "embedded styling" renderer for
compatible vector layers, which allows users to view features using
the closest possible match to their original symbology.

Comments and discussion welcome! (please keep discussion on
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/209 and not
via email replies in order to keep all conversation centralized!).

Regards,
Nyall