/*! \mainpage GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
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 April 2004
GDAL 1.2.0 release.
Master Page:
http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/index.html
Mirror: http://gdal.maptools.org/
Primary Maintainer: Frank Warmerdam.
User Oriented Documentation
Developer Oriented Documentation
Mailing List
The gdal-dev@remotesensing.org
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. The mailing list is also available by NNTP at
news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.gdal.devel
and by HTTP at
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.gdal.devel.
Bug Reporting
GDAL bugs
can
be reported, and
can be
listed using BugZilla.
NOTE: Bugzilla is temporarily unavailable.
Related Information
Projects Using GDAL
- GRASS: A raster/vector
open source GIS uses GDAL for raster import (via r.in.gdal).
- OpenEV: An OpenGL/GTK/Python
based graphical viewer which exclusively uses GDAL for raster access.
- OSSIM:
Another geospatial viewing and analysis environment which uses GDAL as one
of several plugins.
- UMN MapServer:
A popular web mapping application with GDAL support.
- Virtual Terrain Project:
The VTP libraries now use GDAL.
- Thuban:
A multi-platform interactive geographic data viewer.
- Quantum GIS (QGIS):
A Geographic Information System (GIS) built for Linux/Unix.
QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats.
- Demeter:
A another OpenGL based terrain engine somewhat similar to VTP.
- Cadcorp SIS: A Windows GIS has
recently implemented a GDAL plugin (still prerelease).
- FME: A GIS translator package
includes a GDAL plugin (still prerelease).
- ScanMagic:
Commercial Win32 application for visualization, analysis and processing of
remote sensing data (lite version for free).
- MS MacroSystem: 3D DEM Viewer.
- gstat: a geostatistical modelling
package.
*/