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Get rid of GDAL #96

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juliohm opened this issue Jul 3, 2024 · 1 comment
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Get rid of GDAL #96

juliohm opened this issue Jul 3, 2024 · 1 comment
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juliohm commented Jul 3, 2024

GDAL is a temporary dependency that we rely on to load specific GIS formats. It is very problematic, particularly on Windows, with multiple reports of unsuccessful builds.

Our ultimate goal for the near future is to get rid of this external library, and rely on native Julia backends only.
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juliohm commented Nov 1, 2024

GDAL is currently a direct dependency in order to

  1. Handle GeoPackage files (GeoPackage.jl is not there yet)
  2. Write CRS strings to files on disk
  3. Handle other less-popular formats (e.g. KML)

The plan is to fix (1) and (2), drop GDAL, and work on (3) with more time later.

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