Export formats

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 05:05:32PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> On 2016-06-13 02:41 +0000, Erin Lynch wrote:
> > [shapefile export]
>
> 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.

Yes, shape files seem a sensible option for export to GIS.  I've created
a ticket for that:

https://trac.survex.com/ticket/87

> 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.

I'm not seeing benefits to integrating that into Survex - even if
there's nothing you can import existing data into, it could be done as a
separate tool, couldn't it?

Cheers,
    Olly