Hi Thomas, Congratulations! These look like great projects.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 4:07 AM thomas bonfort <thomas.bonf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello gdal, > > We're releasing two projects on github under an Apache-2.0 licence > which may be of interest to the GDAL community. > > The first one, https://github.com/airbusgeo/cogger is a lightweight > geotiff to COG converter that reshuffles the bytes of a tiled geotiff > to make it cloud compatible. Whereas it does not replace the standard > gdal tools for initially creating a geotiff, it is much faster than > the last "-co COPY_SRC_OVERVIEWS=YES" classical gdal_translate method > for outputting a cog, and also allows more flexibility when varying > compression methods or tile sizes need to applied on overviews. Cogger > can be used as a standalone command line tool, or as a go library > function for interacting with remote storage without the need for > local files. > > The second one, https://github.com/airbusgeo/godal is a golang wrapper > for GDAL's raster api. While there is an already established golang > wrapper for gdal that exists (https://github.com/lukeroth/gdal), godal > differs by offering: > - robust error handling and reporting > - a stable compatible api promise (to the extent of what is possible > to achieve given gdal's own api) > - a vsi abstraction that hands off i/o to native golang code > - a more user-friendly API that is not an exact mirror of the gdal > api, making lesser used functionality optional. (For example, instead > of the GDALOpen, GDALOpenEx and GDALOpenShared methods, godal exposes > a single Open() method with optional arguments validated at compile > time to pass in open options, shared mode, sibling files, etc...) > Although the raster handling side of godal is mostly feature complete > with gdal, the vector and spatial-referencing part is not. > > Outside contributions to both these projects are welcome through github. > > Best regards, > Thomas > I'm very interested in "a vsi abstraction that hands off i/o to native golang code". -- Sean Gillies
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