GDAL WKT Raster driver documentation

1 - Introduction

WKT Raster is the project that provides raster support on PostGIS.

The driver only supports reading of regularly blocked in-db rasters. There are other functionalities under development:

• Reading of non-regular blocked rasters.
• Out-db raster support.
• Create and modify rasters.
• Integration with the GDAL utility programs.

1.1 - Credits

Development

• Jorge Arévalo develops the driver

1.2 - More information

• WKT Raster documentation page ​here
• Introduction to WKT Raster format and description of the work done during the Google Summer of Code 2009 here
• Search for "WKT Raster" in the ​PostGIS-users and ​PostGIS-devel forums archives or in ​Nabble or write to these forums.

2 - Installation

2.1 - Requirements

2.2 - Installed precompiled binaries

2.3 - Compiling and installing from sources

2.3.1 - Compiling on GNU/Linux

2.3.2 - Compiling on Windows

3 - Using GDAL WKT Raster driver

3.1 - Loading raster data

3.2 - Reading data

3.3 - Creating and modifying data

4 - GDAL WKT Raster driver reference

5 - Reporting problems