Translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats
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GDAL
Original author(s)
Frank Warmerdam
Developer(s)
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Initial release
8 June 2000; 24 years ago (2000-06-08)
Stable release
3.9.0[1]
/ 10 May 2024; 52 days ago (10 May 2024)
Repository
github.com/OSGeo/GDAL
Written in
C, C++, Python
Platform
Cross-platform
Available in
English
Type
Library
License
X/MIT
Website
gdal.org
The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats (e.g. shapefile), and is released under the permissive X/MIT style free software license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It may also be built with a variety of useful command line interface utilities for data translation and processing. Projections and transformations are supported by the PROJ library.
The related OGR library (OGR Simple Features Library[2]), which is part of the GDAL source tree, provides a similar ability for simple features vector graphics data.
GDAL was developed mainly by Frank Warmerdam until the release of version 1.3.2, when maintenance was officially transferred to the GDAL/OGR Project Management Committee under the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
GDAL/OGR is considered a major free software project for its "extensive capabilities of data exchange" and also in the commercial GIS community due to its widespread use and comprehensive set of functionalities.[3][4]
^"Release 3.9.0". 10 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
^Neteler M., Raghavan V. (2006). "Advances in Free Software Geographic Information Systems". Journal of Informatics. Archived from the original on 2011-08-23.
Extensive capabilities of data exchange are essential for the daily GIS work. GRASS profits from an external project, the GDAL/OGR library <http://www.gdal.org>. This FOSS library is also used even by global data vendors as well as in some proprietary GIS applications. Many of the raster and vector formats supported for reading can be also be generated.
^Mark Wilcox (2009). Porting to the Symbian Platform: Open Mobile Development in C/C++. Wiley.
In the words of Howard Butler, a director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, "I see GDAL as the glibc/glibc++ of the geospatial software world. It's open, it provides core functionality, I can't understand how anybody gets anything done without it."
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sources, such as DigitalGlobe. The technology is based on Node.js, Mapnik, GDAL, and Leaflet. Mapbox uses anonymized data from telemetry pings, such as Strava...
is to ensure its continued development. The format can be accessed using GDAL, currently in read-only mode. NOAA NCEI provides data products from the Hydrographic...
needed]. According to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (which releases GDAL), MrSID was developed "under the aegis of the U.S. government for storing...
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features that were previously available only to the bundled version of GD. GDAL – Translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats GraphicsMagick –...
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leadership in the GFOSS community. 2005 – Frank Warmerdam – Developer of the GDAL/OGR library 2006 – Markus Neteler – GRASS GIS developer since 1998 and founding-member...
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frontend to that toolkit. OpenEV was developed using Python and uses the GDAL library to display georeferenced images and elevation data. The application...
alemannia-judaica.de/jebenhausen_synagoge.htm , accessed 12 October 2008. [in German] Gdal Saleski (2006). Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race. Kessinger. pp. 436–437...
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