is a translator library for raster
geospatial data formats
that is released under an X/MIT style
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.
The NEWS page describes the March 2005
GDAL 1.2.6 release.
ER Mapper has generously provided
ongoing primary sponsorship for GDAL since February 2005 to support work
on GDAL improvement efforts not focused on any particular client project.