[Thuban-list] export to APR ?

[Moritz Lennert]

Jan-Oliver Wagner said:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:15:10PM +0100, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> Are there plans of creating an exportAPR extension similar to importAPR
>> ?
>
> so, after it is generally agreed that this indeed is a helpful feature:
>
> I do not have currently plans to implement this.
> Note, that
> even my implementation of the importAPR extension is only a
> coarse demo that needs to be completeted to get the best
> import results.
>
> An export would be more complicated because I can not
> ignore various information like for the import. A consistent
> apr-file needs to be written and actually only ESRI knows
> what consistent means.
>
> Of course the file format can be reverse engineered.
> It might even be possible to implement a method that, after loading
> an apr-file, transscribes all changed made in Thuban to the apr-data and
> then
> saves them alltogether with those information that were no understood
> by Thuban.
>
> However, the efford for all of this will not be low.
> I estimate 1-2 weeks for a basic APR-Export. About 4 weeks
> to make it use really smooth. And about another 4 weeks
> to implement this transscription feature.
>

I don't want to be misunderstood: I think this would be a helpful feature,
especially in view of convincing my colleagues to switch to Thuban, but
other features are definitely more important for us (such as proportionate
symbols, and the integration with Skencil Bernhard described in another
mail).

So, if someone implements it, great, but its absence is no showstopper...

Moritz