GDAL

Installation

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

Download

The current download page is http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/. However, web searches for the code or documentation lead to many dead links to defuncts sites. In particular, almost all links leading inside https://gdal.org/ from internet search engines are dead.

Documentation

• Web searches for "gdal documentation" are futile, but there is index to just that at https://gdal.org and 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/Main_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.
• There is https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/gdal_quickstart.html

External links

• How to call gdal translate from python code
• GDAL and OGR utilities as library
• Obtain latitude and longitude from a GeoTIFF file
• OSGeo Python Library
• GDAL/OGR in Python (old wiki)
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52777153/convert-longitude-latitude-to-pixel-values-using-gdal
• https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/~smudd/TopoTutorials/html/tutorial_raster_conversion.html
• https://pypi.org/project/geoio/
• https://gisgeography.com/free-gis-software/
• https://qgis.org
• https://www.qgistutorials.com
• The pitfalls of Lambert conformal projection in WRF and MM5
• Map projections in WRF: it's easy to get it wrong includes also examples of maps from WRF using salem
• WGS84 NAD83

Glossary

• WKT: text markup language for representing vector geometry objects
• SRS: Spatial reference system: a complete set of parameters that determine how to associate a point on a map with a point on the Earth surface (system of coordinates, map projection, and datum).
• Latitude - there is more than one because the Earth is not a sphere

See also

• How to run WRF-Fire with real data
• WPS with GeoTIFF support