Hi,
The SOSI driver (fyba) integrated in GDAL is an old version and has not been
updated for many years. We have an updated version of it in the GIS software
(in-house) developed by the National Mapping Authority in Norway (Kartverket),
that many people in the organisation use. There are major changes in the
updated version: use of wchar data type instead of char data type for dealing
with strings, it can handle UTF8 encoding, the object types and properties
tables have been updated, amongst other things. As the latter were hard-coded
and that the SOSI data model change rather dynamically, this is one of reasons
for which newer versions of fyba have not been ported to GDAL, as it would
require much time and resources. fyba has now extended its internal use of
GDAL, which may rely on different versions of GDAL from the latest ones (not
sure about that), and the people working with it find it challenging to keep an
updated version of the SOSI driver in GDAL. We do not really have resources
internally (at Kartverket) for doing such work. At the same time, SOSI will no
longer be used as exchange format in just a few years. We also have currently a
discussion internally about whether the SOSI driver should be removed from GDAL
or not.
Kind regards,
Mathieu
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