I can only find a handful of mentions about creating an OGR driver for OSM files [0][1][2], and those are several years old. Has anyone else considered writing one? I don't think this group is terribly interested in it because we have many other robust tools for converting OSM data from and to other formats. However I think an OGR driver would lower the barrier to entry for using OSM data for those who aren't familiar with any of these other tools, and don't need the power they offer.
Right now I'm only thinking about a read-only implementation. Basing the driver off of one of the existing XML-based drivers like KML or GPX. Possibly revive this as a GSoC idea? -Josh [0]: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-October/019168.html [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Applications_2008#Openstreetmap_OGR_driver_Olga_Mardar [2]: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/support-for-gpx-and-osm-formats-td3762980.html _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
