Introduction

GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is released under an MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single raster abstract data model and a single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command line utilities for data translation and processing.

This site contains the complete documentation of the GDAL source code, as generated automatically by Doxygen. For general information about GDAL, including user-oriented documentation, please see the GDAL main website.

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