Re: [gdal-dev] OGR DXF Driver, /me blogs

2009-12-05 Thread Jan Hartmann
"If only one in ten cities in the world made serious use of free gis software and provided enough financial support for one core developer it would have a huge boosting effect". Frank, do you realise in your Canadian basement how many cities there are in the world? What are you trying to b

Re: [gdal-dev] OGR DXF Driver, /me blogs

2009-12-05 Thread Guillaume Sueur
Frank, Happy to read you online. Please note that the url you sent is wrong. The correct one is http://fwarmerdam.blogspot.com as mentionned on Planet. These new technologies aren't easy to master properly. Keep going. Hope you see you on twitter in a couple of years :-) Best regards, Guillaume

[gdal-dev] OGR DXF Driver, /me blogs

2009-12-05 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Folks, There is no trend to trendy for me to jump on ten years late. So, I've started a blog at: http://fwarmerdam.blogspot.org It will be available on Planet OSGeo which I recommend highly at: http://planet.osgeo.org/ My first post is related to the new DXF driver I'm working on for GDA

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-21 Thread Fodder
Hi, Please refer to my email, I'm happy to play a role. Cheers, Fodder Andreas Neumann-7 wrote: > > I understand. It is not a big contract. I will see who could take the > lead. I know of several organizations in Switzerland who would have an > interest in an OGR dxf driver, in particular

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-15 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Andreas Neumann wrote: In your proposal you mention that arcs and other curves could be supported if the client has interest in it. In Switzerland, Arcs are widely used in survey data. Support for arcs would be important. Do you plan to convert those arcs to vertices, similar to the Interlis dr

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-15 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Frank, I think the proposal already covered the pricing for a read/write dxf driver. It was 2200 euros which is a fixed quote - not an estimate. hm, seems I did not read it to the end. Sorry. Euro 2200 seems reasonable and should not be a problem to raise. I expected it to be more expen

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-15 Thread Brent Fraser
Frank Warmerdam wrote: I would note that the activity is not terribly complicated, and I would welcome others taking a crack at it. I am not particularly trying to drum up business for myself here. I should also note that there is a contributed "write only" dxf driver sitting in Trac curren

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-15 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Andreas Neumann wrote: Frank, can you do a very rough estimate how much it would cost to implement the read/write dxf driver based on your proposal? Andreas, I think the proposal already covered the pricing for a read/write dxf driver. It was 2200 euros which is a fixed quote - not an estim

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-15 Thread Andreas Neumann
Frank, can you do a very rough estimate how much it would cost to implement the read/write dxf driver based on your proposal? Would you deal with dwgs also, or just dxf - how similar/different are dxf and dwg? We could help financing it, but not the whole thing. If a couple of interested parties

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-15 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Fodder wrote: Hi Frank, Thanks, this would be great, although I can't fund it in completion (Euro Aussie dollar :) .Would you be prepared to develop just the READ side of the driver, and what do you think that would cost (without styling)? Fodder, I would be willing to implement only read s

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-14 Thread Fodder
Hi Frank, Thanks, this would be great, although I can't fund it in completion (Euro Aussie dollar :) .Would you be prepared to develop just the READ side of the driver, and what do you think that would cost (without styling)? Alternatively, are other users/organisations interested in jointl

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-14 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Fodder wrote: Hi All, I am also very keen for an OGR DXF/DWG driver that supports reading and writing. I imagine there would be many people that would take advantage of this capability. I would also be willing to contribute financially if somebody wanted to take the project on board. I may not

Re: [Gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-13 Thread Fodder
Hi All, I am also very keen for an OGR DXF/DWG driver that supports reading and writing. I imagine there would be many people that would take advantage of this capability. I would also be willing to contribute financially if somebody wanted to take the project on board. I may not be able to fund

Re: [gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-09 Thread Even Rouault
Aurélien, Obviously, I'm not answering exactly to question, but in case you were not aware of it, there's a patch in trac for a - write-only- DXF driver for OGR : http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2555. There's also a previous DXF driver now living in 'spike' (because of licencing reasons), wi

[gdal-dev] OGR: DXF driver

2008-10-09 Thread Aurélien Kamel
Hello, Does somebody knows where I could find (if existing) a DXF driver for OGR that supports reading (writing is not necessary) ? Thanks, Aurel ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-