OGR [was Re: a question about my mapviewer program]

[Daniel Calvelo Aros]

From: "Chris Barker" <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov>
> That sounds great, but what is OGR? I've been following this list 
> for a while, but have not had a chance to really dig into the code 
> yet. Hopefully I can do that starting in February.

OGR (standing for nothing in particular) is a library written in C by Frank
Warmerdam that uses an internal representation and API to access "simple
features" (i.e. vector data). It has importers and exporters for a great
number of file formats, and also supports spatial databases (and PostGIS in
particular). Its raster counterpart is GDAL. For info on both, see
http://www.gdal.org.

Currently, GRASS, QuantumGIS use it.

> -Chris

Daniel.