Re: [OpenMap Users] GML Layer

Hi Brian,

On Dec 12, 2003, at 1:06 PM, Hudson Brian R Contr AFRL/IFSF wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I searched the openmap archives and found a post asking if a GML Layer
> would
> be created for openmap.
>
> Don responded:
>
> We don't have a GML layer yet. We hope to have one soon. Galdos
> (http://www.galdosinc.com) is preparing to release an open source
> Java-GML package that should make this pretty easy to do.

They did this a while ago, you can get their code that reads GML
documents at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gml4j/

> This was posted 05/07/2001.
>
> Has a GML Layer been created for openmap? And/or accompanying
> importers/exporters?

We have not written a layer to display GML data, I don't know if anyone
else has.

> Looking through the openmap source it doesn't look like these have been
> created. Have this efforts been abandoned?

Abandoned, no. More like on the back burner.

> If so, what was the reasoning?

Well, speaking for BBN, it's not a funded requirement, and we have
other funded requirements that take precedence.

> Or are these items still on the TODO list?

Nice-to-have list.

It wouldn't be hard to do, either, especially if you have a package
that is handing you the geometries from the GML document.

- Don

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