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

[Chris Barker]

Daniel Calvelo Aros wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Very handy. Does this mean that Thuban does/will have an 
internal format for generic data that I could then write a python 
importer for my custom file formats?

-Chris




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