Export formats

[Philip Schuchardt]

I have to through this out there. Andy Edwards and I are working on a new
cave data format called Metacave:

https://github.com/jedwards1211/metacave

Olly, you might be interested in it.

Phi|ip

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> On 2016-06-13 02:41 +0000, Erin Lynch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I most frequently use export to SVG and KML export. KML would be greatly
> enhanced with the option to include passage walls,
> > The export format I would find most useful is ESRI shapefile. I've spent
> a lot of time converting data from survex to compass just so I can use the
> export to shapefile option in compass. The lack of a shapefile export is a
> barrier to wider adoption of survex.
>
> That's a good point. Better tools for GIS interworking in general
> should be a consideration. Shapefile is a horrible format (have you
> read the spec? (presumably due to decades of baggage)) but it is
> well-documented and open, and shapelib exists for reading/writing it
> (and is packaged in debian) which hopefully hides the ugliness.
>
> When I used qgis it seemed like a good thing would be if survex
> provided some way to serve cave data as OWS/WCS/WFS/WMS layers. I
> don't know what the best way to implement this is. Maybe servers exist
> already and we just need to export vectors or rasters in suitable
> ways.
>
> Wookey
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