[gdal-dev] Re: OGR Driver for Norwegian SOSI standard

2011-11-18 Thread relet
Thank you all for your comments -- Even: * I think the build system is easy to do. The library does not have any significant external dependencies so wrapping it into a circle of auto* was not my top priority. * I would of course be available to maintain the synchronization. If the library/driver

[gdal-dev] Re: OGR Driver for Norwegian SOSI standard

2011-11-17 Thread relet
Thank you Even, I would want to try and go for the second option. My motivation is mainly that a majority of users will be using packaged software like osgeo4w or qgis - if SOSI support is enabled by default, it would be available in these packages. My main question is in how far the included co

[gdal-dev] Re: OGR Driver for Norwegian SOSI standard

2011-11-17 Thread relet
Update: The source code to FYBA is available at http://bitbucket.org/relet/fyba Some binaries for FYBA and ogr+sosi are also available in the releases directory. I would still strongly vouch for integrating with ogr, as third applications like QuantumGIS or mapserver would depend on libraries

[gdal-dev] Re: OGR Driver for Norwegian SOSI standard

2011-10-12 Thread relet
Dear all, Re: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3638 The current version of the SOSI driver depends on a library called FYBA. This library is about to be made open source under a MIT/X licence. That means, we could legally include it fully in the SOSI driver, and I would like to start a discussio

[gdal-dev] Re: OGR Driver for Norwegian SOSI standard

2010-07-13 Thread relet
Thanks Frank. I have attached the current driver code to the ticket and added a short explanation http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3638#comment:1 I hope that works for you. In case there are any questions I'll be glad to be of assistance to whomever wishes to review the driver, also by chat or

[gdal-dev] OGR Driver for Norwegian SOSI standard

2010-07-12 Thread relet
Dear all, During the last month, we have developed an OGR driver for the Norwegian SOSI standard[1]. It has reached a state[2] where it can be used to read and use the basic features from SOSI files in OGR-enabled application like mapserver. The standard itself is the national standard for repres