Re: [gdal-dev] Write support for MBTiles drive

2014-07-21 Thread Sean Gillies
Dear Nick, For what it's worth, the Mapbox project https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiler is already being used in software that prepares tiles for upload to mapbox.com. We licensed it MIT thinking that it might be used in future updates to the GDAL MBTiles driver. Since it doesn't tile or impleme

Re: [gdal-dev] Write support for MBTiles drive

2014-07-21 Thread Nicu Tofan
Thank you all for your input. I will start the work later this week and I will keep you posted about the progress. Also, thanks for your support and comments, Mark. I haven't had the time yet to read the guidelines for developers (regarding style & workflow & all) but I will make sure I do that be

[gdal-dev] Write support for MBTiles drive

2014-07-21 Thread Mark Johnson
>> Note that the licence used in the software (GNU GPL v3) is incompatible >> with GDAL, so it cannot be included in the GDAL source tree without the >> author's consent to use the code under another licence (such as the MIT/X >> licence used by GDAL). If geopaparazzi was meant by this, we have no