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** install doxygen if needed, and type doxygen in the top directory of the source
 
** install doxygen if needed, and type doxygen in the top directory of the source
 
** Open html/index.html in a web browser
 
** Open html/index.html in a web browser
* Documentation was installed as described above for [http://demo.openwfm.org/web/gdal-2.4.0/html/index.html version 2.4.0] and [http://demo.openwfm.org/web/gdal-2.4.0/html/index.html version 3.0.0]
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* Documentation was installed as described above for [http://demo.openwfm.org/web/gdal-2.4.0/html/index.html version 2.4.0] and [http://demo.openwfm.org/web/gdal-3.0.0/html/index.html version 3.0.0]
 
* There is https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/gdal_quickstart.html
 
* There is https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/gdal_quickstart.html
  

Revision as of 22:25, 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

External links

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