Possibility to add dxf with Myplaceimport?

[SannaJokela]

National Board of Antiquities (contact Minna Ryyppö) has needs for adding autocad format datasets to Oskari, could e.g. dxf-format be suitable for Dataset Import? Does anybody else have such needs?

[jampukka]

If GeoTools supports reading DXF files then adding support for them is trivial.

[SannaJokela]

Ok - so strong yes on this? :) Should it support all formats that GeoTools supports then? http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/geotools.html

Dxf is among them.

[jampukka]

MyPlaces import won't support all of the formats GeoTools supports out-of-the-box. But adding support for a format that GeoTools is able to read is rather easy. I'm not familiar with the inner workings of DXF format so I can't be certain that the result will be exactly what the user might expect. Also I'm not sure how "well" GeoTools can read them. Having a basic support for a format might be enough. Best way to find out would be to test the GeoTools parser with the actual DXF files the user is hoping to import.

[SannaJokela]

Ok! Thanks! I'll let Minna know about this.