GDAL/OGR FAQ

1. FAQ - General
   1. What is GDAL?
   2. What does GDAL stands for?
   3. What is this OGR stuff?
   4. What does OGR stands for?
   5. What exactly was the license terms for GDAL?
   6. How do I add support for a new format?

1. FAQ - Installation and Building
   1. Where can I find development version of GDAL?
   2. Can I get a MS Visual Studio Project file for GDAL?
   3. Can I build GDAL with MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?
   4. Can I build GDAL with Cygwin or MinGW?
   5. Can I build GDAL with Borland C or other C compilers?
   6. Why Visual C++ 8.0 fails with C2894 error in wspiapi.h when building GDAL …
   7. How can i add particular LDFLAGS with GDAL < 1.5

1. FAQ - Raster
   1. Why won't gdalwarp or gdal_merge write to most formats?
   2. How to improve gdalwarp perfomance?
   3. How to convert a raster to a layer of polygons?
   4. Can I use gdal_rasterize to generate non-solid polygons?
   5. How do I use gdal_translate to extract or clip a sub-section of a raster?

1. FAQ - Vector
   1. How can I merge hundreds of shapefiles?
   2. How do I translate a mixed geometry file to shapefile format?

1. FAQ - Coordinate Systems and Projections
   1. What are Well Known Text projections, and how do I use them?
   2. Can I reproject rasters with GDAL?
   3. Why doesn't GDAL automatically choose the datum transformation?

1. FAQ - Miscellaneous
   1. Is the GDAL library thread-safe?
   2. Does GDAL work in different international numeric locales?
   3. How do I debug GDAL?
   4. How should I deallocate resources acquainted from GDAL on Windows?