Difference between revisions of "GDAL"

Revision as of 21:19, 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 http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/. However, web searches for the code or documentation lead to many dead links.

There does not seem to be documentation on the web, but there is a wiki https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki, which also links to alternative download pages. But that wiki seems old, there is a new wiki at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki.
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==
-* There does not seem to be documentation on the web, but there is a wiki page https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki, which also links to alternative download pages. This wiki seems old, there is a new wiki at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki.
+* There does not seem to be documentation on the web, but there is a wiki https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki, which also links to alternative download pages. But that wiki seems old, there is a new wiki at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki.
 * 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