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==Download==
 
==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.
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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==
 
==Documentation==

Revision as of 06:45, 26 May 2019

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

  • There does not seem to be complete 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/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

Glossary

See also