Hi, I like GDAL a lot and I use its vector and raster capabilities daily. It would also be unfair to sit in the Program steering committee of GDAL if I didn’t like it. However, I also like OpenJUMP and it feels important for me to keep it fully operational on Windows, Linux, and Mac (both 32 and 64 bit) with a minimal footprint. The current download size of 23 or 46 MB makes OpenJUMP really “A small Open Source GIS that can” as Martin Davis wrote. We do have less features and less users than QGIS but we also have only 43 open issues in bug tracker while QGIS seems to have 1184.
Because of simplicity I considered that making a JML driver into GDAL was better choice than to build a deeply integrated GDAL data store into OpenJUMP. Now it is possible to make format conversions totally outside OpenJUMP with native utilities and even the minimal OJ Core can enjoy the results. That said, I for sure have nothing against making an OpenJUMP Maxi version with the integrated GUI tool. Both iGOR and the newest ogr2gui version http://www.ogr2gui.ca/en/index.php are brilliant. They also show what is the weakness: They are not so easy to build and install on all Windows/Linux/Mac, and they get old so soon. For example, JML driver is tagged to GDAL version 2.0 and it probably takes a year before it is released and available for Linux from stable sources. -Jukka Rahkonen- Lähettäjä: Larry Becker [mailto:becker.la...@gmail.com] Lähetetty: 22. lokakuuta 2014 22:44 Vastaanottaja: OpenJump develop and use Aihe: Re: [JPP-Devel] GDAL reads and writes JUMP JML now Sounds like an idea whose time has come. With GDAL support (in the MAXI release) it would be possible to integrate the GUI tool from SkyJUMP that uses ogr2ogr to to load any supported file format while reprojecting the coordinate system. See the attached screen shot. The main feature is the exhaustive drop down list of coordinate systems that can be reduced by typing a key word. regards Larry On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:15 PM, <edgar.sol...@web.de<mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>> wrote: On 20.10.2014 12:30, edgar.sol...@web.de<mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de> wrote: >> For testing the driver a GDAL from current trunk (revision r27882 or higher) >> is needed. Windows users can get ready made binaries from >> http://gisinternals.com/sdk/ by selecting some of the “development” >> versions. The GDAL tool to use is ogr2ogr http://gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html. As >> an example, for converting data from MapInfo tab into JML format the command >> to use is >> > > i will update PLUS snapshot as soon as possible > scratch that.. there were mere 60 downloads of our GDAL-windows package https://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/OpenJUMP_plugins/Drivers/ from sourceforge since january. maybe we should come up with a MAXI release integrating GDAL for the lazy crossing the 100MB border though. ..ede ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
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