User Docs

Extended documentation and tips for the GDAL and OGR end user utilities

• GdalMerge - mosaic a set of images
• GdalTranslate- for converting rasters to other formats
• GdalWarp - transforming (projecting) rasters to different coordinate systems
• Gdal2Tiles - creates a TMS tile structure, KML SuperOverlay and simple html files with viewers
• Raster Processing Tutorial - A one hour tutorial on GDAL raster processing utilities.
• ​Raster and vector processing with GDAL - 4h workshop given initially at FOSS4G Europe 2015
• OgrInfo - report information on vector files (feature type, projection, schema, etc.)
• GdalGrid - create a regular grid (raster) from the scattered data read from OGR source
• ReadInZip - reading a GDAL dataset in a .gz file or a .zip archive
• ​ogr2gui - a windows only gui similar to ogr2ogr
• JPEG2000 utilities - Documentation of validate_jp2.py, dump_jp2.py and build_jp2_from_xml.py scripts
• ​Dan's GDAL scripts - a collection of GDAL-compatible utilities & alternative implementations of gdal tools.
• ​Let's Get Parallel - Tools and opportunities for end-user parallel raster & geometry processing - presentation from FOSS4G Europe 2015.

External User contributed documentation and tips for the GDAL and OGR end user utilities

• ​GDAL raster data tips and tricks
• ​OGR vector data tips and tricks
• ​Creating super-overlays with gdal2tiles by Mano Marks presents usage of gdalinfo, gdal_translate and gdalwarp
• ​Making geospatial PDF maps from OSM with GDAL (pdf)

File Formats

• GeoTiff - the most versatile format for geo-referenced rasters (images)
• OGC Web Map Service WMS - a collection of service description XML files
• Shapefiles - about the ESRI Shapefile format
• SQLite - good to know for using SQLite based drivers (GeoPackage, SpatiaLite, ...)

GDAL/OGR docs in PDF

NOTE: all GDAL/OGR user docs also available as one ​PDF and as a single ​HTML-page from GIS-Lab (russian GIS community).

Rbuild Framework

This is an end-user framework built around GDAL for huge rasters. It organises national/continental-scale tiled parallel GDAL operations efficiently. It allows structured re-use of optimal GDAL configurations.

• ​Rbuild & GDAL presentation from FOSS4G2013. Includes notes on storage & performance efficiency in GDAL.
• ​Git repository.
• ​Demonstration project.
• ​A tool that compiles Excel spreadsheet descriptions into efficient gdal_calc raster algebra.

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