Difference between revisions of "GDAL"

Revision as of 19:00, 25 May 2019

Best install using standard system package manager, such as apt-get (Ubuntu), yum (Fedora), or macports (OSX).

The current download page is from http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/. However, web searches lead to dead links or irrelevant redirects.

There does not seem to be documentation on the web, but there is a useful wiki page https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki also leads to another download page.
The software installs without man pages and typing gdal utilities from the command line with -help gives only a brief list of options. But the following works:
- Download the appropriate version of sources as tar.gz file and expand the file
- install doxygen if needed, and type doxygen in the top directory of the source
- Open html/index.html in a web browser
The documentation for version 2.4.0 was installed as described above here.

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 ==Documentation==
-* Some apparently legacy documentation is at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki which appears to be legacy but as far as I can tell it is actually the current one, and also leads to another download page.
+* There does not seem to be documentation on the web, but there is a useful wiki page https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki also leads to another download page.
+* The software installs without man pages and typing gdal utilities from the command line with -help gives only a brief list of options. But the following works:
+** Download the appropriate version of sources  as tar.gz file and expand the file
+** install doxygen if needed, and type doxygen in the top directory of the source
+** Open html/index.html in a web browser
 * The documentation for version 2.4.0 was installed as described above [http://demo.openwfm.org/web/gdal-2.4.0/html/index.html here].