On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:24:03AM +0200, Even Rouault wrote: > Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 22:13:15, Jochen Topf a écrit : > > Interesting. Any reason you wrote the whole thing yourself instead of > > basing it on the Osmium library? (wiki.osm.org/wiki/Osmium) > > Hi Jochen, > > The main reason is I didn't make an extensive search of what other libs > existed before, so yes perhaps, a bit of reinvented wheel syndrom...
:-) > Looking a bit at Osmium documentation, which seems to be very elegant on a > architectural point of view, there are a few things that would have been > worth > considering : > - another dependency to add to the long list of dependencies of GDAL/OGR. I'm > not sure how extensively it is packaged for common distros. Osmium is a header-only library, so the extra dependency would only be there for people building GDAL/OGR, not people using the library. So I'd say it is not that bad. (And you have the dependency on spatialite now which Osmium wouldn't need.) Packaging is a bit of a problem, I agree. There is an Osmium package in the newest Ubuntu. But thats already out-of-date. We have a bit of a hen-egg-issue here. I haven't focused on packaging because I didn't see the need. As far as I know everybody using Osmium works from the git repository. But thats certainly something we need to work on. > - Osmium does not seem to be Windows ready according to its doc. Yes. I hope somebody who knows anything about Windows development will help with that at some point. > - not a major point, but its licencing. I see it is LGPL, which is OK, but > more "demanding" than GDAL X/MIT, which can be a problem for some people. If thats an actual problem for anybody (and not an imagined one) I am certainly willing to talk about licenses. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
