From: Mateusz Loskot <mateusz <at> loskot.net>
Subject: Re: Geovisualization / mapping library
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gis.freegis
Date: 2008-05-06 14:28:23 GMT (35 weeks, 3 days, 10 hours and 10 minutes ago)

Ari Jolma wrote:
> I wonder what will be the reaction to the dependance on GDAL. I'm 
> thinking it might be possible to treat it as one alternative data 
> provider. Also, it might be possible, in a similar fashion, to treat 
> cairo as one alternative graphics backend, however, that might make less 
> sense.

Personally, I'd not think too much about supporting too
many "optionals":
- renderer: libgd or cairo or agg or ...
- provider: GDAL or FDO or Yet Another Cool Interface to Geospatial ...

I believe that in most cases it would be sufficient to provide complete 
support to GDAL/OGR. Big variety of options may be distracting
too much 

Just my 5 eurocents

Greetings
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net