[gdal-dev] Support for reading GDAL datasets in compressed archives (.gz and .zip)

2008-08-25 Thread Even Rouault
Folks, I've just commited code in gdal 1.6.0dev SVN trunk that enables GDAL to decompress on-the-fly data from GZIP (.gz) and ZIP (.zip) archives. This is implemented as 2 virtual file systems (like /vsimem for example), /vsigzip and /vsizip. Only read-only access is supported. Note that perfo

RE: [gdal-dev] RE: progressive rendering

2008-08-25 Thread Norman Barker
Adam, Thank you for your detailed reply, I am certainly considering it and I will add it to the wiki for comment. I will also be editing my notes to take in Tamas comments. I a couple of questions, I loosely based the callback function in the RFC on the listener (observer) pattern (http://en.wik