Hi Jesse,

I’ve actually done work in this area as well.  After reading your needs list 
and before seeing that you thought about DWG/SVG, I’ll say that those were the 
two formats I was going to suggest for storing everything.  DXF is open, as 
well as DWG (More work though).

You might be able to make a case for GeoJSON, but it’s limiting in some ways, 
and you would probably need to include JS or a JS Lib as well as the styling 
info separately.  Although you could conceivably put it all into a single HTML 
doc.


bobb



On Dec 18, 2015, at 8:14 AM, Jesse McGraw 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

All,
  Before I go too far down the wrong path perhaps you can help me with a 
suggestion on a vector format to use for a project of mine:

I'm to looking to basically re-create various Instrument Approach Procedure 
plates (see here<http://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1513/00375il28r.pdf> for an 
example for San Francisco International - SFO ) from a database via a perl 
script and display a number of them as vector overlays in an existing QGIS 
project

What would be a good format to use for this purpose?

I'm imagining something like a QGIS project file, but I want it to contain to 
contain all of the various bits of information internally (coordinates, names, 
styling, icons etc.) and not have to query anything external so each file is a 
stand-alone unit.

Ideally all of the coordinates would be real world lon/lat so no transformation 
would be required.  Bonus points if the format is openly standardized and easy 
to work with

DWG/DXF?  SVG?

Thanks,
  Jesse
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