RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGR and Open Design Alliance DWG-DXF
Thanks Frank, I'll take it from here. If I get stuck i'll holler. Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc. ro...@sylvanascent.com +34 626 855 662 -Original Message- From: Frank Warmerdam warmer...@pobox.com Sent: 17 February 2009 18:56 To: Roger Bedell ro...@sylvanascent.com; OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGR and Open Design Alliance DWG-DXF Roger Bedell wrote: Hi Frank, I found this: http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/spike/dxfdwg/ which seems to be an OGR to DWG/DXF exporter using the ODA libs. Can you tell me what the status of this is? If it isn't active, can I pick it up and work with it a bit? Roger, This code was removed from GDAL trunk because a bit of it was derived directly from header files of the ODA libraries and so it was not properly licensed as open source. As of a year or two ago I believe it worked within the limited scope of what it was supposed to do - which was to export simple features DWG files from OGR datasources. Feel free to use the code, but keep in mind that the license provenance is flawed, though not necessarily insurmountable so. I'm not sure that this forum is the best place for additional discussion on technical details. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Programmer for Rent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OGR and Open Design Alliance DWG-DXF
Hi Frank, I found this: http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/spike/dxfdwg/ which seems to be an OGR to DWG/DXF exporter using the ODA libs. Can you tell me what the status of this is? If it isn't active, can I pick it up and work with it a bit? Thanks, Roger Bedell, President, Sylvan Ascent Inc.___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OGR and Open Design Alliance DWG-DXF
Roger Bedell wrote: Hi Frank, I found this: http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/spike/dxfdwg/ which seems to be an OGR to DWG/DXF exporter using the ODA libs. Can you tell me what the status of this is? If it isn't active, can I pick it up and work with it a bit? Roger, This code was removed from GDAL trunk because a bit of it was derived directly from header files of the ODA libraries and so it was not properly licensed as open source. As of a year or two ago I believe it worked within the limited scope of what it was supposed to do - which was to export simple features DWG files from OGR datasources. Feel free to use the code, but keep in mind that the license provenance is flawed, though not necessarily insurmountable so. I'm not sure that this forum is the best place for additional discussion on technical details. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Programmer for Rent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss