Andrea Aime wrote:
> Wow, this looks great, from WebGIS to the most popular CAD system.
>
> One question is how this overlaps with the OGR output format, as far as
> I remember OGR is also able to deal with DXF... or maybe not?
>
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html> Hmmm... maybe they dropped support for that due to legal issues with
> OpenDWG.
I have looked at it before starting the project and It seemed it was not
able to export in that format (anyone expert in OGR stuff can tell us
more about this?).
>
> Another thing that comes to mind is Autocad Map, as far as I remember
> it had some way to attach attributes to the geometries using block
> attributes or something like that. Is this kind of output
> envisaged? Just curious.
For now, it's just exporting geometries, but if we can find some
fundings, we can surely extend it in that direction.
>
> Afaik one can make mixed requests, passing the format options in the
> URL and the rest of the request in xml format
I tried, but it seems the kvp parser complains about missing parameters
if I specify only format_options (for example it complains about missing
typeNames).
>
> As far as I remember DXF is an open spec and there are no legal
> issues implementing it in a product, right?
> If so, +1 for community area.
Yes, I think there's no legal issue with DXF.
Thanks,
Mauro
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