GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an MIT style Open Source License by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

The GDAL project distributes GDAL as source code and Containers only. Binaries produced by others are available for a variety of platforms and package managers.

There is a set of generic SWIG interface files in the GDAL source tree (subdirectory swig) and a set of language bindings based on those. Currently active ones are:

The gdal command is provisionally provided as an alternative interface to GDAL and OGR command line utilities. The project reserves the right to modify, rename, reorganize, and change the behavior of …

Workshops Raster and vector processing with GDAL, FOSS4G-Europe 2015, Even Rouault External tutorials A Gentle Introduction to GDAL, by Robert Simmon

Building as part of the GDAL library source tree Usage Numpy Tutorials Gotchas Examples Examples Getting information on a raster dataset using dedicated methods Getting information on a raster …

At this time access to raster data via GDAL is done one band at a time. Also, there is metadata, block sizes, color tables, and various other information available on a band by band basis.

The following drivers have been removed in GDAL 3.11: BLX, CTable2, ELAS, FIT, JP2Lura, OZI, Rasterlite (v1), R object data store (.rda), RDB, SDTS, SGI, XPM Write support for the following …

GDAL 3.9 Implemented in OGRPoint, OGRSimpleCurve, OGRCircularString, OGRCompoundCurve, OGRCurvePolygon, OGRPolygon, OGRGeometryCollection, and OGRPolyhedralSurface.

The following drivers have been removed in GDAL 3.5: AeronavFAA, BNA, HTF, OpenAir, REC, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA, XPlane The following drivers have been removed in GDAL 3.11: …