Re: [gdal-dev] Buffer in geodetic space

2025-06-20 Thread Joaquim Manuel Freire Luís via gdal-dev
Hi, See this example on how I do that in Julia. At the bottom it’s GDAL functions that are being used. https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/GMTjl_doc/examples/misc/buffer/#example_2628794262856115982 Joaquim From: gdal-dev On Behalf Of Schumacher, Mia via gdal-dev Sent: Friday, June 20, 202

[gdal-dev] Note on Xerces

2025-06-20 Thread Nicklas Larsson via gdal-dev
Hi, I just want to give a heads up on discussions related to Xerces, which in the future might affect (the availability) the GDAL drivers depending on named library. The maintainer of Xerces noted in November last year: "I'd strongly advise pulling or at least deprecating (don't know the of

Re: [gdal-dev] gdal 3.11 autocompletion in zsh

2025-06-20 Thread Even Rouault via gdal-dev
Hi, I've queued fixes to make it work: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/12615 Even Le 20/06/2025 à 08:58, Stephane Goldstein via gdal-dev a écrit : I’m running zsh on Arch Linux and I can’t get the new autocompletions for gdal 3.11 working. I added the below to my |.zshrc|. Any help is ap

Re: [gdal-dev] Buffer in geodetic space

2025-06-20 Thread Schumacher, Mia via gdal-dev
Hi Javier, there is a QGIS plugin called 'Beeline' that measures great circle distances: https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/Beeline/ Hope that helps? Cheers, Mia On 20.06.25 12:06, Javier Jimenez Shaw via gdal-dev wrote: Hi Yesterday I read an article in a newspaper with an image showing di

[gdal-dev] Buffer in geodetic space

2025-06-20 Thread Javier Jimenez Shaw via gdal-dev
Hi Yesterday I read an article in a newspaper with an image showing distances from a country that was not considering that the Earth is spheric. It is not the first time; it will not be the last one. As we all (should) know, measuring large distances (thousands of kilometers) in projected coordina

Re: [gdal-dev] Note on Xerces

2025-06-20 Thread Even Rouault via gdal-dev
Hi Nicklas, Thanks for the head up. yes I'm aware that almost nobody maintains Xerces-C anymore.  Regarding the Interlis & NAS drivers, they could certainly be moved to using expat instead (with some effort...). The GMLAS driver cannot however. It strongly relies on unique capabilities of Xer

[gdal-dev] gdal 3.11 autocompletion in zsh

2025-06-20 Thread Stephane Goldstein via gdal-dev
I’m running zsh on Arch Linux and I can’t get the new autocompletions for gdal 3.11 working. I added the below to my .zshrc. Any help is appreciated. autoload -U bashcompinit; bashcompinitsource /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/gdal ___ gdal-dev ma