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

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:22:51AM -0800, Chris Barker wrote:
> 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?

so far we do not really have an internal format in Thuban.
Depending on your custom file format, it might be easy
to convert it to a standard one. The extension gns2shp does
this for example.

Best

	Jan
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