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. When GDAL project was started?
   6. Is GDAL/OGR proprietary software?
   7. What license does GDAL/OGR use?
   8. What operating systems does GDAL-OGR run on?
   9. Is there a graphical user interface to GDAL/OGR?
   10. What compiler can I use to build GDAL/OGR?
   11. I have a question. Where can I get more information?
   12. When is the next release planned?
   13. 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++ 2008 Express Edition?
   4. Can I build GDAL with MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?
   5. Can I build GDAL with Cygwin or MinGW?
   6. Can I build GDAL with Borland C or other C compilers?
   7. Why Visual C++ 8.0 fails with C2894 error in wspiapi.h when building GDAL …
   8. How can i add particular LDFLAGS with GDAL < 1.5
   9. I am having problem building with external libraries, where can I look?
   10. What is GDAL_DATA environment variable?
   11. How to set GDAL_DATA variable?

1. FAQ - Raster
   1. How to make GeoTIFF from non-geospatial raster?
   2. Why won't gdalwarp or gdal_merge write to most formats?
   3. How to improve gdalwarp perfomance?
   4. How to convert a raster to a layer of polygons?
   5. How can I create a blank raster based on a vector files extents for use …
   6. Can I use gdal_rasterize to generate non-solid polygons?
   7. How do I use gdal_translate to extract or clip a sub-section of a raster?
   8. How to create or modify an image color table ?

1. FAQ - Vector
   1. How can I delete feature from Shapefile?
   2. How can I delete Shapefile?
   3. How can I merge hundreds of Shapefiles?
   4. How do I translate a mixed geometry file to shapefile format?
   5. How to quote command parameters for GDAL/OGR utilities in Microsoft …

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?
   4. Does GDAL/OGR use the PROJ.4 EPSG init file (/usr/share/proj/epsg) ?

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?
   5. C API vs C++ API
   6. How do I suppress warning encountered in Python API?