Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:48:58 +0100 From: "Laurent Courty" <lrntct@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/93852: Add mention of vector support in graphics/gdal Message-ID: <20060226074855.780566CF04@smtp2-g19.free.fr> Resent-Message-ID: <200602260750.k1Q7o3Ye053155@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 93852
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Add mention of vector support in graphics/gdal
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 26 07:50:03 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Laurent Courty
>Release: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System:
>Description:
Modification of graphics/gdal/Makefile and pkg-descr in order to mention
vector support.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
diff -ruN /usr/ports/graphics/gdal/Makefile ./Makefile
--- /usr/ports/graphics/gdal/Makefile Tue Dec 20 14:19:55 2005
+++ ./Makefile Sat Feb 25 22:36:35 2006
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
http://dl.maptools.org/dl/gdal/
MAINTAINER= lawrance@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT= A translator library for raster geospatial data formats
+COMMENT= A translator library for geospatial data formats
BUILD_DEPENDS= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/doxygen:${PORTSDIR}/devel/doxygen
LIB_DEPENDS= jasper.4:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/jasper \
diff -ruN /usr/ports/graphics/gdal/pkg-descr ./pkg-descr
--- /usr/ports/graphics/gdal/pkg-descr Wed Oct 17 21:02:21 2001
+++ ./pkg-descr Sun Feb 26 08:15:42 2006
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
-GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is
-released under an Open Source license. As a library, it presents a single
-abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats.
+GDAL/OGR is translator library for raster (GDAL) and vector (OGR) geospatial
+data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the
+calling application for all supported formats.
-GDAL is in active use in a few projects, and includes a number of
-formats. Current translators include GeoTIFF (read/write), Erdas Imagine
-(read), ESRI .BIL (read/write), .aux labelled raw (read/write), DTED
-(read), SDTS DEM (read), CEOS (read), JPEG (read/write), PNG (read/write),
-Geosoft GXF (read) and Arc/Info Binary Grid (read). A full list is
-available in Supported Formats.
+They providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of file formats
+including ESRI Shapefiles, S-57, SDTS, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, Mapinfo mid/mif
+and TAB formats, GeoTIFF, Erdas Imagine, ESRI .BIL, .aux labelled raw, DTED,
+SDTS DEM, JPEG, PNG and Arc/Info Binary/ASCII Grid.
+A full list of supported data formats is available on the official website.
-WWW: http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/
+WWW: http://www.gdal.org
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