Hi Ari,

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Ari Jolma <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd like to ask the PSC and others to vote on adopting RFC 61:  Support
> for measured geometries.
>
> The draft RFC is at
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc61_support_for_measured_geometries
>
> and a draft implementation is at
>
> https://github.com/ajolma/GDAL-XYZM
>
> which is tested at
>
> https://travis-ci.org/ajolma/GDAL-XYZM
>
> (the test #34, which passed, was the so far last one after core changes
> with unchanged autotests and a rather comprehensive set of WKT tests in the
> Perl tests directory)
>
> This is seemingly a small change but it is at the heart of OGR so it has
> some important implications. The only backwards incompatibilities that have
> appeared so far are with some drivers, for example shapefile, which can be
> lessened with, e.g., open options.
>

Can you explain more in detail about the backwards incompatibilities and
how to soften them? What's going to break and what are the specific options?

-- 
Sean Gillies
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