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by thrdOriginal 5740 days ago
Is this just a nice GUI for ogr2ogr? I could be wrong (I certainly haven't done the market research) but my gut feeling is that most people who would need this service would also be technically savvy enough to use free tools like FWTools. That said, there could still be a use case (beginners?), in which case you'll have to do a great job in the SEO department. Also, $10/conversion seems very high: a flat monthly fee would be much better.
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cousin_it 5740 days ago
Exactly what I wanted to say. We use GDAL/OGR many times every day, it's an open source library that can do much more than this "startup". Frank Warmerdam is a hero.

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html

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webstartupper 5740 days ago
No. This does not use OGR as the backend.

The idea was to have something out there and then build based on customer feedback.

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