Le lundi 26 janvier 2015 21:54:37, Wolf Bergenheim a écrit : > Hi, > > Let's not be hasty here. > > The GME driver will become more important now that GME is going down, since > people will possibly be using the GME driver to migrate their data from GME > to what ever other service / platform they are moving to. I think we should > still keep it around for one more year. I suppose I could maintain a patch > for the GDAL driver. Do what other mechanisms to add a GDAL driver? Did > you mean to only have it live in the 1.11 branch? That should be only > mildly irritating.
Hi Wolf, Your argument makes sense and we can/should probably keep it in trunk until GME is really unavailable. So GDAL 2.1 could kill it. > > Best Regards, > Wolf Bergenheim > > > On 26 January 2015 at 20:52, Even Rouault <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just saw news here and there (*) that Google Maps Engine will be > > discontinued in January 2016 (couldn't find an official statement from > > Google > > however, apart from an email quoted by others...). So I was wondering if > > there > > was a point in keeping the driver in trunk or if it should be just be > > killed ? > > > > If so, GDAL 2.0 would probably be the first version to remove an existing > > driver : cool ;-)! We could probably do the same with a few drivers for > > esoteric old formats, but it's difficult to know for sure which ones are > > completely unused. > > > > Even > > > > (*) http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-maps-engine- > > deprecated.html > > <http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-maps-engine-depre > > cated.html> > > > > -- > > Spatialys - Geospatial professional services > > http://www.spatialys.com -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
