Re: [gdal-dev] Internal Metadata Management

2010-12-15 Thread Frank Broniewski
Am 15.12.2010 16:47, schrieb Howard Butler: On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Ari Jolma wrote: On 12/15/2010 05:11 PM, Frank Broniewski wrote: Hello Ari, yes that is definitely helpful. But I still wonder if it might be easier/quicker to use GeoJSON as a interchange format and tranform from geo

Re: [gdal-dev] Internal Metadata Management

2010-12-15 Thread Howard Butler
On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Ari Jolma wrote: > On 12/15/2010 05:11 PM, Frank Broniewski wrote: >> >> Hello Ari, >> >> yes that is definitely helpful. But I still wonder if it might be >> easier/quicker to use GeoJSON as a interchange format and tranform from >> geojson to other formats than

Re: [gdal-dev] Internal Metadata Management

2010-12-15 Thread Ari Jolma
On 12/15/2010 05:11 PM, Frank Broniewski wrote: Hello Ari, yes that is definitely helpful. But I still wonder if it might be easier/quicker to use GeoJSON as a interchange format and tranform from geojson to other formats than using OGRs internal structure. I already have some convenience cl

Re: [gdal-dev] Internal Metadata Management

2010-12-15 Thread Frank Broniewski
Hello Ari, yes that is definitely helpful. But I still wonder if it might be easier/quicker to use GeoJSON as a interchange format and tranform from geojson to other formats than using OGRs internal structure. I already have some convenience classes for creating GeoJSON structures in Python.

Re: [gdal-dev] Internal Metadata Management

2010-12-14 Thread Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da
Hi Frank Check out this link [1]. It is the online reference on a Utah University course called 'Geoprocessing with Python using Open Source GIS'. It uses GDAL/OGR and is great as a starting point. It has helped me plenty ;) [1] - http://www.gis.usu.edu/~chrisg/python/ On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:

Re: [gdal-dev] Internal Metadata Management

2010-12-14 Thread Ari Jolma
Frank, A FeatureDefn is typically shared by all features in a layer and you need one to create a feature object. Feature class has SetField and GetField methods for storing and retrieving the attributes of a feature. I hope this helps, Ari On 12/14/2010 09:33 AM, Frank Broniewski wrote: He

[gdal-dev] Internal Metadata Management

2010-12-14 Thread Frank Broniewski
Hello, I have a question concerning OGR's metadata or attribute management when converting between geodata vector formats. My question is maybe only loosely related to OGR and aims at the internal management of attribute data. From what I have read and understood from the documentation, OGR