RFC List

A list of all GDAL/OGR RFC documents, with status.

• RFC 1: Project Management Committee Guidelines (Adopted)
• RFC 2: Migration to OSGeo Subversion Repository (Adopted)
• RFC 3: GDAL Commiter Guidelines (Adopted)
• RFC 4: Geolocation Arrays (Development)
• RFC 5: Unicode support in GDAL (Development)
• RFC 6: Geometry and Feature Style as OGR Special Fields (Adopted)
• RFC 7: Use VSILFILE for VSI*L Functions (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 8: Developer Guidelines (Development)
• RFC 9: GDAL Paid Maintainer Guidelines (Adopted)
• RFC 10: OGR Open Parameters (Development)
• RFC 11: Fast Format Identify (Adopted)
• RFC 12: Improved File Management (Adopted)
• RFC 13: Improved Feature Insertion/Update/Delete Performance in Batch Mode (Withdrawn)
• RFC 14: Image Structure Metadata (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 15: Band Masks (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 16: OGR Thread Safety (Development)
• RFC 17: Python Namespace Definition (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 18: OGR Style Support in C API (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 19: Safer memory allocation in GDAL (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 20: OGRSpatialReference Axis Support (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 21: OGR SQL type cast and field name alias (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 22: RPC Georeferencing (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 23: Unicode support in OGR (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 24: Progressive data support in GDAL (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 25: Fast Open (Withdrawn)
• RFC 26: GDAL Block Cache Improvements (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.1)
• RFC 27: Improved Supporting Data File Options (Development)
• RFC 28: OGR SQL Generalized Expressions (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 29: OGR Set Ignored Fields (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 30: Unicode Filenames (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 31: OGR 64bit Integer Fields and FID (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 32: gdallocationinfo utility (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 33: GTiff - Correcting PixelIsPoint Interpretation (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 34: License Policy Enforcement (Development)
• RFC 35: Delete, reorder and alter field definitions of OGR layers (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 36: Allow specification of intended driver on GDALOpen (Obsolete, deprecated by RFC46)
• RFC 37: User data callbacks in CPLError (Adopted, implemented)
• RFC 38: OGR Faster Open (Withdrawn, deprecated by RFC46)
• RFC 39: OGR Layer Algebra (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 1.10)
• RFC 40: Enhanced RAT Support (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 1.11)
• RFC 41: Support for multiple geometry fields in OGR (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 1.11)
• RFC 42: OGR Layer laundered field lookup (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 1.11)
• RFC 43: GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList() (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 1.11)
• RFC 44: XML and JSON output for gdalinfo/ogrinfo (Proposed)
• RFC 45: GDAL datasets and raster bands as virtual memory mappings (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 1.11)
• RFC 46: GDAL/OGR unification (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 47: Per Dataset Caching and GDALRasterBand Multithreading (Development)
• RFC 48: Geographical networks support (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.1)
• RFC 49: Curve geometries (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 50: OGR field subtypes (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 51: RasterIO() improvements : resampling and progress callback (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 52: Strict OGR SQL quoting (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 53: OGR not-null constraints and default values (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 54: Dataset transactions (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 55: Refined SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() semantics (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 56: OFTTime/OFTDateTime millisecond accuracy (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 57: 64-bit bucket counts for histograms (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.0)
• RFC 58: Removing nodata value (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.1)
• RFC 59: GDAL/OGR utilities as a library (Withdrawn in favor of RFC 59.1)
• RFC 59.1: GDAL/OGR utilities as a library (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.1)
• RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR (Adopted, implemented in GDAL 2.1)
• support for measured geometries

Status values:

• Adopted: RFC is approved (and presumably implemented)
• Proposed: RFC is complete, and open for voting.
• Development: RFC is being written/revised/discussed.
• Withdrawn: RFC is unapproved, and not being pursued further.