Re: [gdal-dev] Driver maintenance - long-term solution ?

2021-01-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
So reading through this thread, my cynical side agrees with the "this project is dying from lack of funding, ..." approach, but I'm not sure that works for the long run as people get tired of hear the "sky is falling" and ignore it over time. A different approach could be something along the l

Re: [gdal-dev] Driver maintenance - long-term solution ?

2021-01-15 Thread Jan Heckman
I have none of the financial/organisational knowledge that some of you have, and this is mere googling. With that being said, is https://bigdatastack.eu/european-open-source-initiative a potential? It has a participation link and explicitly includes individuals and not only academia and companies.

Re: [gdal-dev] Driver maintenance - long-term solution ?

2021-01-15 Thread David Strip
Further evidence of the challenge of getting funds to support gdal from US gov't agencies: Someone at the USGS privately emailed me to confirm that like Sandia, they cannot support gdal through voluntary donations or in-kind contributions that are outside the scope of con

[gdal-dev] GDAL workshop for FOSSGIS 2021

2021-01-15 Thread Markus Metz
Hi, we from mundialis, mainly Markus Neteler and me, are thinking about giving a 90 minute GDAL workshop during the upcoming FOSSGIS conference in Switzerland. We are not part of the core GDAL team, but confident that we are able to give such a workshop for a German-speaking audience. Before we of

[gdal-dev] OGC KML compliance

2021-01-15 Thread Even Rouault
Hi, if anyone cares about GDAL still being mentionned as a OGC KML reference implementation, run autotest/kml_generate_test_files.py with GDAL 3.2, submit the produced 4 files to the OGC KML 2.2 test harness (https://cite.opengeospatial.org/teamengine/viewSessions.jsp) and communicate to Angelos