Le vendredi 19 juillet 2013 03:31:12, Xian Chen a écrit : > Hi all, > > I'm planning to submit a new driver for accessing Walk files, a geospatial > data format developed by Walkinfo Tech. mainly for land surveying, > evaluation, planning, checking and data analysis in China. > > Walkinfo Tech. is a China-based company founded since 1999, origignally > focused on land surveying software research and development. Currently we > have our own geographic information platform WalkGIS, as well as scores of > GIS desktop, mobile products based on it, including WalkISurvey, > WalkISurface, WalkCheck, WalkFu and so on. The company is also the largest > strategic partner with Esri ArcGIS in China. > > The WalkGIS applications use GDAL/OGR as part of its base libaries. The > purpose of developing the Walk driver on GDAL/OGR is to allow other GIS > products such as ArcGIS to access our data more easily and conveniently. > > The driver I am working on is already able to get the information such as > layers, features, geometries, and spatial references from Walk files. Can I > get the permission to submit it to GDAL project and share it with other > GDAL developers?
Hi Xian, First, you should check with your employer that you can legally contribute code to the GDAL/OGR project and submit it under the GDAL MIT/X licence. Check the "Legal" section of http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc3_commiters . If this is the case, send an email to this mailing list where you will confirm it. I also suggest that you read the developer guidelines at http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc8_devguide and check that your code conforms to (most of) them. For OGR driver, I would also recommend that you test the driver with the "test_ogrsf" utility (not compiled by default, but in a custom build, you can "cd apps", and then "make test_ogrsf" / "nmake /f makefile.vc test_ogrsf.exe") on sample files in your data format. This will run a few consistency test to check assumptions that an OGR driver should met. Then, you can attach an archive with the code to a Trac ticket ( http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/newticket ), so that it can be reviewed. Best regards, Even -- Geospatial professional services http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
