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
• OgrInfo - report information on vector files (feature type, projection, schema, etc.)
• Raster Processing Tutorial - A one hour tutorial on GDAL raster processing utilities.

File Formats

• GeoTiff - the most versatile format for geo-referenced rasters (images)

Reference Stuff

• Shapefiles - about the ESRI Shapefile format

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