Frank Warmerdam announced on the OSGeo website, in the GDAL Project Maintainer Contracted news, that I’ve started general GDAL maintenance and support activities. In fact, it will be a continuation, because I have been involved in GDAL project since March 2006, or a bit longer.
I’m very happy and thankful about this opportunity. I hope my services will be valuable to the GDAL project and bring a nice set of improvements.
If anyone of you, GDAL or OGR users, will have any comments or suggestions related to GDAL issues, or you will need any help in this subject, please drop me a note or step in to the #gdal channel on the irc.freeenode.net server to talk about it.
Right on, Mateusz!
Since March 2007??? That isn’t that long is it, considering this is february 2007. :-)
Morten, good catch! Thanks for pointing it.
Sean, thank you!
Congrats Mateusz :-)
Rather unrelated: is there a publicly accessible bug tracker/feature request online tool for GDAL/OGR? I know there’s the mailing list (which I subscribed last year), but such a tool would be very nice! And my low-priority feature request would be WMS support in GDAL (see Frank’s reply last month on the mailing list). Have fun with your new responsibilities!
Alexandre, thanks!
There is official GDAL issue tracking database powered by Bugzilla.
Currently, this is the right place to report bugs or request enhancements.
About WMS, I’m not sure what is Frank’s roadmap in this matter, but my own roadmap is that I’ll start work on WMS support near the end of May 2007. WMS support is one of requirement we’ve defined for MOSS4G project with John Graham and – as we use GDAL/OGR as the foundation of data services – we’re going to add/use WMS support to GDAL as well, if no one will do it earlier ;-)
Mateusz:
Congrats on your new position.
There seems to be some demand out there to have OGR write out shapefiles, etc from KML–what are your thoughts?
Thanks,
Brian
Brian, currently OGR does support dumping data to KML format, for example you can do it from Shapefile -> KML. Though, there is no KML reading support.
Thanks!