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Posted by Jean H. on September 13, 2007, 11:52 am
Please log in for more thread options pantagruel wrote:
> I have a requirement to save GIS information in the following formats:
>
> JPG
> TIFF
> PNG
> GML
> SVG
>
> and if possible:
> GEOTIFF
> JPG2000
>
> There is also a requirement for passing around and understanding GML
> in a profile basically mapping to the Simple Profile. Therefore what
> I would like to do is to pass around info in GML and convert from GML
> to these formats. I figure the best conversion would be convert to SVG
> and then from SVG use something like Batik to go to the other required
> formats. This however is just what my initial supposition would be on
> how to handle a problem I am not an expert in, and goes with my
> natural predisposition to roll my own so as to completely control the
> solution. I suppose however there are probably already solutions to
> handle this kind of thing, my requirements for a purchased solution
> would be:
>
> Extremely flexible API, if I am going to recommend we buy a solution I
> want to be able to programmatically access the geographical info and
> update it from the api and generate all possible wanted outputs.
>
> .NET interface a plus.
>
> COM interface also useful.
>
> If the application has WMI/WBEM interface that would be really cool
> but not required.
>
>
> Any ideas/suggestions on either tools that do this, or advice on my
> idea on how to handle requirements?
>
You can try ogr2ogr for the conversion... http://www.gdal.org/ogr/index.html
Jean
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