Hi Stefan,
Yes, it would be an interface to an external native-code library. As you
know, we do this already with ECW and MrSID. I think it is OK as long as
the code is cross-platform (which I believe GDAL/OGR is).
Larry
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Stefan Steiniger <sst...@geo.uzh.ch>wrote:
> Hei,
>
> without looking on the page/posts
> it is interesting - but I guess it will be a "binding" to a C lib. So I
> would say it is rather an idea for an external plugin and not for an
> integration due to the platform issue (Win, Linux, MaxOSX). However,
> could be that my comment was unqualified - as I didn't look into the
> details.
>
> but - thanx for making me/us aware. Hope I'll found some time on the
> weekend to look into.
>
> stefan
>
> Sunburned Surveyor schrieb:
> > Thanks for clarifying Larry.
> >
> > SS
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Larry Becker <becker.la...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> GDAL/OGR does much more than reprojection. For instance, using the
> ogr2ogr
> >> utility, which is written in just a few pages of code, you can create
> >> shapefiles from an ESRI personal geodatabase while reprojecting the
> result
> >> with a single command.
> >>
> >> It also supports practically every raster format.
> >>
> >> I'm thinking that it would be simple to write a general GDAL import
> driver
> >> that would let users open any gis data format supported and provide
> >> reprojection on-the-fly support in the same dialog. This is basically
> what
> >> ogr2gui does.
> >>
> >> Larry
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Sunburned Surveyor
> >> <sunburned.surve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Larry,
> >>>
> >>> I don't know much about GDAL, but I'm thinking it will be a lot easier
> >>> to add deegree or GeoTidy/GeoTools CRS support to OJ.
> >>>
> >>> SS
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Larry Becker <becker.la...@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> This post is continuing the debate/discussion about adding OJ
> projection
> >>>> support, and other interesting things that GDAL provides.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've noticed that Even Rouault has been giving the GDAL Java bindings
> >>>> quite
> >>>> a workout lately.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/swig/java/apps/
> >>>>
> >>>> Does this development indicate that it may no longer be quite so
> >>>> difficult
> >>>> to add GDAL support to JUMP?
> >>>>
> >>>> regards,
> >>>> Larry
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