Re: [gdal-dev] Split apart MULTI* problem

2011-04-26 Thread Luca Sigfrido Percich
Hi William, converting a single linestring or polygon into a multi- geometry simply wraps the single geom into a collection. Like in the U.K., when you see a single person waiting at a bus stop, it's actually a queue made of a single person :) Splitting a multi geometry would result in multiple

Re: [gdal-dev] Split apart MULTI* problem

2011-04-26 Thread William Kyngesburye
I just remembered that what I've done in the past wasn't splitting multi features, but dropping the z from 3D shapefiles. So I don't know if the multi splitting is possible. And yes, forcing features to multi into PostGIS is different from splitting multi features into a shapefile. I suppose

Re: [gdal-dev] geotiff conflict

2011-04-26 Thread Julien Malik
Hello, As it seems like the gdal 1.8 debian package is not out yet, maybe there is still some time left to tackle this issue for the next gdal debian package. To sum up the current situation when reading TIFF files with gdal : - this program :

Re: [gdal-dev] Split apart MULTI* problem

2011-04-26 Thread Even Rouault
Le mardi 26 avril 2011 15:27:05, William Kyngesburye a écrit : I just remembered that what I've done in the past wasn't splitting multi features, but dropping the z from 3D shapefiles. So I don't know if the multi splitting is possible. And yes, forcing features to multi into PostGIS is

Re: [gdal-dev] Split apart MULTI* problem

2011-04-26 Thread William Kyngesburye
On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Even Rouault wrote: Le mardi 26 avril 2011 15:27:05, William Kyngesburye a écrit : I just remembered that what I've done in the past wasn't splitting multi features, but dropping the z from 3D shapefiles. So I don't know if the multi splitting is possible.

Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL and HRE

2011-04-26 Thread Even Rouault
Le mardi 26 avril 2011 13:10:15, georgec_...@yahoo.com a écrit : hello, I saw your message on osgeo-org with the subject line NGA High Resolution Elevation (HRE) data problem? did you ever get the HRE files parsed with GDAL? I'm working on the same sort of thing and was just wondering?

Re: [gdal-dev] geotiff conflict

2011-04-26 Thread Even Rouault
Le mardi 26 avril 2011 18:36:45, Julien Malik a écrit : Hello, As it seems like the gdal 1.8 debian package is not out yet, maybe there is still some time left to tackle this issue for the next gdal debian package. To sum up the current situation when reading TIFF files with gdal : -

Re: [gdal-dev] geotiff conflict

2011-04-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:55:00PM +0200, Even Rouault wrote: What can we do to help find a solution (what kind of modification to the gdal debian package would you agree to make to solve this issue) ? I'm not sure the solution is really in the debian packaging... There are indeed very

Re: [gdal-dev] geotiff conflict

2011-04-26 Thread MALIK Julien
Hi Even, Quoting Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.org: Le mardi 26 avril 2011 18:36:45, Julien Malik a écrit : Hello, As it seems like the gdal 1.8 debian package is not out yet, maybe there is still some time left to tackle this issue for the next gdal debian package. To sum up the

Re: [gdal-dev] geotiff conflict

2011-04-26 Thread Even Rouault
All this comes from the fact that Orfeo Toolbox has ossim as one of its main dependency, and ossim handles TIFF via libgeotiff and not via gdal. For example : http://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/browser/trunk/ossim/src/ossim/support_data/ossi mGeoTiff.cpp which makes extensive use of the geotiff

Re: [gdal-dev] geotiff conflict

2011-04-26 Thread MALIK Julien
Quoting Francesco P. Lovergine fran...@debian.org: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:55:00PM +0200, Even Rouault wrote: What can we do to help find a solution (what kind of modification to the gdal debian package would you agree to make to solve this issue) ? I'm not sure the solution is really in

Re: [gdal-dev] geotiff conflict

2011-04-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:39:21PM +0200, MALIK Julien wrote: Here we go: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#id293268 of course this is a possibile solution to avoid symbol collision among different libraries. It is not a os-independent solution even,