Hi Even, Thanks for listening. :)
It will make my life easier in the coming year. --Wolf On 26 January 2015 at 22:01, Even Rouault <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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