[Freegis-list] Re: [GRASS5] VPF/VRF open source libriary

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:37:55PM +0100, Bjørn Roald wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:20:25 +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner
> > <jan at intevation.de> wrote:

> > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:59:12AM +0100, Bjørn Roald wrote:
> > > > Anybody have any pointers to existing "free" code supporting
> > > > the vector format known as VPF (or VRF when as part of the
> > > > DIGEST standard).  

> > > Currently there is only vhclmaps which is quite outdated
> > > and afaik, OpenMap (Java) which handle vpf.
> > > Links to these and perhaps some more at www.freegis.org.
> > >
> > > I am crossposing this to the FreeGIS mailing list, perhaps
> > > some people are also interested in the  development of a GPL/LGPL
> > > vpf viewer.

Note that any serious Free Software work should evaluate
how good the code for VPF in OpenMap and vhclmaps is.
OpenMap probably is closest to become a VPF viewer.

> Anybody have any thoughts of how this can tie into or interact with the new
> GRASS vector format?

First you have to check out and test the new code in the grass51 tree.
I assume that you know how to write into the new vector format after
that. :)
	Bernhard


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