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GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an Open Source license. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.

Master Page: http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/index.html
Maintainer: Frank Warmerdam.

Status

GDAL is in active use in a few projects, and includes a number of formats. Current translators include GeoTIFF (read/write), Erdas Imagine (read/write), ESRI .BIL (read), .aux labelled raw (read/write), DTED (read), SDTS DEM (read), CEOS (read), JPEG (read/write), PNG (read/write), Geosoft GXF (read) and Arc/Info Binary Grid (read). A full list is available in Supported Formats.

The gdal-dev@yahoogroups.com mailing list can be used for discussion of development and user issues related to GDAL and related technologies. Subscriptions can be done, and archives reviewed on the web.

API Documentation exists for GDAL, and was created using Doxygen.

Bug Reporting

GDAL bugs can be reported, and can be listed using BugZilla.

Download

Binaries of the GDAL utility programs and the shared libraries are available for MS Windows NT/95/98 and Linux.

The GDAL source is available by anonymous CVS or as a tarball:

% export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.remotesensing.org:/cvsroot
% cvs login
Password: anonymous
% cvs checkout gdal
Update access to the CVS repository can be obtained by arrangement with the maintainer. The CVS tree can also be browsed on the web. The last full source release is available as gdal116.zip or gdal-1.1.6.tar.gz. Build instructions are also available.

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