GeoDeo

Today I came across the GML Viewer of Snowflake Software. It promises to display any GML2 and GML3 file. After testing several GML viewers I was a bit sceptical about that. However it really did open any GML 3 file I tried! Really great! I have not used it very extensive yet, but a few random GML documents I retrieved from my Deegree setup for GDI4DM were indeed visualised without problems.

There are some minor points as well, the user interface could be more friendlier and usable. Also the WFS 1.1 request didn’t work for me.

In the end it seems a nice additional tool to easily visualise GMLs without much problems.

Actually I am a bit sad as it does almost the same as I was planning to do. I was about to write a GML viewer in .NET/WPF capable of displaying any GML3 file as well by just parsing any GML without validation and simply walking through the structure and displaying any found GML geometries and their sibling elements. Well I’ll still do that, just for fun at home to play around with WPF/C# and make it open source.

Tags: GML GDI4DM

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