[Gvsig_english] gdal and grass driver

[G. Allegri]

Having support for both GRASS native rasters and vectors would be
great. I think it should be done through GDAL/OGR, to avoid
reinventing the wheel...
Probably a good point to start would be the imageio-ext library [1],
that is going to be used in various other projects (geotools,
geoserver, udig/jgrass, etc.).

[1] https://imageio-ext.dev.java.net/

2008/11/24 Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk>:
> GRASS 6.4 will be released soon and I think gvSIG should build on that
> for native GRASS format support.
> This would also make support of GRASS vector maps straight-forward.
> GvSIG already supports vector layers with more than one geometry type
> for DXF/DWG. Surely, it should not be too much work to also support
> GRASS vectors using the 6.4 vector libs? The only thing that would be
> difficult is the fact that GRASS supports multiple attribute tables.
> However, that's a feature that very few people use and for most
> purposes, it should be OK to just link to the first attribute table.
>
> While we are at it: how about linking not only to GDAL but also to OGR
> for supporting a wider range of vector formats, at least for reading?
> GvSIG is a bit limited in that respect at the moment.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben
>
> christian Brandt wrote:
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> the question of relationship between gvsig and GRASS should be given more
>> attention within the new release,
>> as gvsig and GRASS would complement one another very well. The <only>
>> problem has been pointed out for several times, as in the recent e-mail by
>> giohappy at gmail.com.
>> Obviously, many OS-Gis users would like to use gvsig amongst others for
>> layouting GRASS raster results but this is restricted du to incompatibility
>> of the given formats.
>>
>> So, it would be great if the new realease (or the raster pilote) offers
>> the possibility to work with GRASS rasters.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>  > Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:27:02 +0100
>>  > From: giohappy at gmail.com
>>  > To: gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es
>>  > Subject: [Gvsig_english] gdal and grass driver
>>  >
>>  > Dear list, I would like to understand a bit more the driver support
>>  > available in Gvsig. I know that the Raster Pilot plugin allows to
>>  > access many formats, but is it based on gdal bindings or it uses
>>  > native methods to deal with them? Until the latest stable version the
>>  > filebrowser window, opened to add layer,s shows GRASS Image between
>>  > the available extensions (but I've never been able to see correctly
>>  > the loaded layer... just a big black square). In the 2.0 preview that
>>  > choice doesn't appear, but I could see the rasters inside cellhd
>>  > listed as generic Raster Image extension... anyway I receive error
>>  > when I try to open a cellhd file.
>>  > So, in sinthesys, what relation is there between Gvsig "core", Raster
>>  > Pilot plugin, GDAL and Grass format? And should be expected from the
>>  > new 2.0 release?
>>  >
>>  > Thanks a lot,
>>  > Giovanni
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