On 16-1-2010 3:01, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Instead, if this is a goal of archiving, I'd suggest archiving
the original data (in a possibly arcane format), and a copy in
a more accessable format likely to still be usable decades later.
That's what we are doing now. It's OK for practical purposes.
The OGR VRT driver already captures most of this with my recent
addition of schema support. It could be extended to actually be
a feature store.
Alternatively, we could look at improving the GML driver to support
capture of everything that OGR can represent. This would have the
benefit of being useful in non-OGR applications.
Both very good propositions, especially the GML one. I guess such a GML
dump could be read back into OGR without problems? I'm not proposing a
RFC (don't know how much work it is), but perhaps you could keep this in
the back of your head ...
Jan
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