API

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C API

• Common Portability Library C API
• gdal.h: Raster C API
• ogr_core.h and ogr_api.h: Vector C API
• gdal_alg.h: GDAL Algorithms C API
• ogr_srs_api.h: Spatial Reference System C API
• gdal_utils.h: GDAL Algorithms C API

C++ API

Raster API

• GDALDriver C++ API
• GDALDataset C++ API
• GDALRasterBand C++ API
• Warper C++ API

Vector API

• OGRFeature C++ API
• OGRFeature Style C++ API
• OGRGeometry C++ API
• OGRLayer C++ API

Spatial reference system API

• Spatial Reference System C++ API

Multi-dimensional array API

• GDALGroup C++ API
• GDALDimension C++ API
• GDALAbstractMDArray C++ API
• GDALMDArray C++ API
• GDALAttribute C++ API
• GDALExtendedDataType C++ API

Miscellaneous C++ API

• Common Portability Library C++ API
• Geographic Network C++ API

Python API

• General information
• GDAL Python submodules
• Python Raster API
• Python Vector API
• Python Spatial Reference System API
• Python Multi-dimensional array API
• Python Utilities
• Python General API
• Python Gotchas in the GDAL and OGR Python Bindings
• Python Sample scripts

Java API

GDAL/OGR In Other Languages

There is a set of generic SWIG interface files in the GDAL source tree (subdirectory swig) and a set of language bindings based on those. Currently active ones are:

• C# bindings
• Java bindings

There are also other bindings that are developed outside of the GDAL source tree (note: those offer APIs not strictly coupled to the GDAL/OGR C/C++ API). These include bindings for

• Go
• Julia
• Original Node.js bindings
• Node.js fork with full Promise-based async and TypeScript support
• Perl
• PHP
• R
• Ruby
• Rust

There are also more Pythonic ways of using the vector/OGR functions with

• Fiona
• Rasterio

There is a more idiomatic Golang way of using the raster functions with

• Godal