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

[Chris Barker]

Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> so far we do not really have an internal format in Thuban.

That's what I was afraid of

> Depending on your custom file format, it might be easy
> to convert it to a standard one. The extension gns2shp does
> this for example.

Do you mean convert my file to a shape file, then use this in Thuban?

If so, yes, this probably wouldn't be too hard. However, my goal is to 
have a custom Lapp that understands the file formats it needs, without 
any external translation. Indeed, it will need to create files as well, 
in a custom format.

while I'm at it, is there an easy/efficient way to deal with thousands 
of points with a value associated with them?

Clearly I need to spend some time really delving into the code.

-Chris



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