The GEOS dependency is not a long-term challenge, nor spatialite's licensing - you could write a clean-room implementation of both and they would be much-appreciated. But I don't think anyone _will_ write a clean-room implementation unless there's a good reason to, and thus the chicken-and-egg problem of adoption versus implementation. Standardizing abstract file formats without easily-used implementations is not useful: formats need to prove their usefulness through real-world success, or everyone will implement their own.
Also, bringing in Spatialite means that you aren't just standardizing a binary format - you're pulling in the OGC SFS spec or something similar for access: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfs It looks like Spatialite has gone from GPLv3 to MPL, which might be an improvement. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Jaak Laineste <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 09.04.2012, at 20:27, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > > > On Lunes, 9 de abril de 2012 19:11:29 Eric Wolf escribió: > >> I suspect that this very conversation was what originally spurned Frank > >> Warmerdam to write the first version of GDAL/OGR. Instead of a universal > >> file format, why not just build a universal translator? > > > > For me, "interoperability" means "I can run ogr2ogr against it" :-D > > +1. And to make this happen, please describe your format in plain text, in > simple English. That's our interoperability standard. > > There are many excellent reasons why we will always have different > formats for different needs, but as long as you can provide clear and well > usable interface code for it, or description is clear enough so I can > implement it, then it is just fine. Feel free even invent new file formats. > > Jaak > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >
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