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==Glossary==
 
==Glossary==
* [[wikipedia:Well-known_text_representation_of_geometry|WKT]]
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* [[wikipedia:Well-known_text_representation_of_geometry|WKT]]: text markup language for representing vector geometry objects
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* SRS: [[wikipedia:Spatial reference system|Spatial reference system]]: system of coordinates, map projection, and datum
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 
* [[How to run WRF-Fire with real data]]
 
* [[How to run WRF-Fire with real data]]
 
* [[WPS with GeoTIFF support]]
 
* [[WPS with GeoTIFF support]]

Revision as of 19:31, 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

  • 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

Glossary

  • WKT: text markup language for representing vector geometry objects
  • SRS: Spatial reference system: system of coordinates, map projection, and datum

See also