Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-11-02 Thread Even Rouault
Hi, I've updated the RFC text with the suggestions made during this discussion, and added the proposed implementation. If nobody has further remarks, I'll call soon for a vote for its adoption. Even > Hi, > > This is a call for discussion on "RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR". > > http

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-21 Thread Sean Gillies
Howard, Even, On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Even Rouault wrote: > Hi Howard, > > > I agree about the need for the feature, and I think it is a useful > > addition, but I'll admit to being a bit concerned about the "native" > > nomenclature. It allows us to incrementally add capability for st

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-20 Thread Even Rouault
Hi Howard, > I agree about the need for the feature, and I think it is a useful > addition, but I'll admit to being a bit concerned about the "native" > nomenclature. It allows us to incrementally add capability for stuff like > GeoJSON extensions without having to disrupt the entire API to suppo

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-19 Thread Howard Butler
I agree about the need for the feature, and I think it is a useful addition, but I'll admit to being a bit concerned about the "native" nomenclature. It allows us to incrementally add capability for stuff like GeoJSON extensions without having to disrupt the entire API to support it. Because

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-16 Thread Daniel Morissette
Just a quick note to say that I reviewed the RFC and like the idea. I can see this being used someday by the MapInfo TAB/MIF drivers to carry the native MapInfo styling info, as well as geometry in some cases (rectangle, roundedrect, text object, etc.) to maintain them between TAB and MIF file

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-15 Thread Sean Gillies
Kurt, On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Kurt Schwehr wrote: > Sean got what I was meaning to say. Do we want the output to have some > record of which mode was used. I think the answer is likely no. > I agree, no. Without a larger provenance framework of some kind there's not much to be done w

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-15 Thread Kurt Schwehr
Placeholder for we I or anybody else gets time to work on metadata driver(s). https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6154 Doug, If you have any key example files that would work well for test coverage, feel free to attach them to the ticket. I know we need a pretty wide range or a driver will just

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-15 Thread Newcomb, Doug
Kurt, A driver for writing ISO metadata files would be quite welcome. Anything to make compiling and writing metadata less painful is always a good thing. :-) Doug On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Kurt Schwehr wrote: > Sean got what I was meaning to say. Do we want the output to have some > re

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-14 Thread Kurt Schwehr
Sean got what I was meaning to say. Do we want the output to have some record of which mode was used. I think the answer is likely no. And it reminds me that I need to think about a driver for writing ISO metadata files. (bleck) The processing steps would go in an xml iso metadata sidecar.

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-14 Thread Sean Gillies
Kurt, Even: thanks for continuing the discussion. A couple of comments below. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Even Rouault wrote: > Hi Kurt, > > > Just gave RFC 60 a quick look. In general, I think we absolutely need > > this. Some thoughts: > > thanks for the comments (by the way, anyone r

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-14 Thread Even Rouault
Hi Kurt, > Just gave RFC 60 a quick look. In general, I think we absolutely need > this. Some thoughts: thanks for the comments (by the way, anyone reading this mailing list is welcomed to comment not just PSC members) > > - There are users who need the old behavior. We need an easy way to

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-10-14 Thread Kurt Schwehr
Just gave RFC 60 a quick look. In general, I think we absolutely need this. Some thoughts: - There are users who need the old behavior. We need an easy way to get that. I think the default should be the more functional RFC 60 way. I see the -noNativeData flag, so I think this is well covered.

Re: [gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-09-25 Thread Sean Gillies
Dear all, This feature is a boost for GeoJSON users who are extending the format and users of those extensions. JSON is a naturally extensible format but the GeoJSON OGR driver stifles development of extensions by passing only the fully standardized GeoJSON items. Let's say I want to use ogr2ogr

[gdal-dev] Call for discussion on RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR

2015-09-23 Thread Even Rouault
Hi, This is a call for discussion on "RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR". https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc60_improved_roundtripping_in_ogr This RFC defines how to improve better round-tripping in conversion of vector formats, in particular for GeoJSON extensions. Best regards, Even