Re: [gdal-dev] Curve support in OGR

2009-06-22 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Frank, Good to hear that you are principally interested in curve support. I can understand that you are reluctanct to start such an effort before proper financial backing. Unfortunately I don't have loads of money to support such an effort, but I (resp. my employer) would participate in a join

Re: [gdal-dev] Curve support in OGR

2009-06-19 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Andreas Neumann wrote: right - we still use an old commercial version of Mapguide. We may move to the newer open-source version (or Mapserver) in the future. But this is not my main concern. The main concern is being able to work with curves (mainly circular arcs) across the whole OSGeo tool cha

Re: [gdal-dev] Curve support in OGR

2009-06-19 Thread Andreas Neumann
right - we still use an old commercial version of Mapguide. We may move to the newer open-source version (or Mapserver) in the future. But this is not my main concern. The main concern is being able to work with curves (mainly circular arcs) across the whole OSGeo tool chain, primarily also in Des

Re: [gdal-dev] Curve support in OGR

2009-06-18 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Andreas Neumann wrote: > sdf (used for Mapguide) If you use MapGuide, you also use FDO. FDO does support curves, so you can forget about OGR and just use FDO. Cheers, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org __

[gdal-dev] Curve support in OGR

2009-06-17 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi all, I am sure this topic is coming up once in a while. I wonder what the take is on curve support in the OGR feature model. Most formats we use now support curves, but our favorite translation engine does not. For curve support I currently have to use FME. These are the formats/database