On 11-02-05 06:27 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
I've written up an Overview for GDAL. I'm not very familiar with GDAL, so would
appreciate it if someone who has used GDAL could review my text and confirm:
1. That what I've written is clear and understandable
2. Is technically accurate
I'd also appreciate suggestions regarding what image we should use to accompany
the text.
Can we think of something better than a screen grab of a command line call of
one of the gdal scripts?
GDAL/OGR¶
Transformation Library¶
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL/OGR) provides command-line utilities
to translate and process a wide range of raster and vector geospatial data
formats.
The utilities are based upon a cross platform, C++ library, accessible via
numerous programming languages. As a library, it presents a single abstract
data model to the calling application for all supported formats.
GDAL/OGR is the most widely used geospatial data access library. It provides
the primary data access engine for many applications including MapServer,
GRASS, QGIS, and OpenEV. It is also utilized by packages such as OSSIM, Cadcorp
SIS, FME, Google Earth, VTP, Thuban, ILWIS, MapGuide and ArcGIS.
I would suggest replacing the above with:
"""
GDAL/OGR
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL/OGR) is a cross platform C++
translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats that is
released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial
Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the
calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of
useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing.
GDAL supports over 50 raster formats, and OGR over 20 vector formats.
It provides the primary data access engine for many applications including
MapServer, GRASS, QGIS, and OpenEV. It is also utilized by packages such as
OSSIM, Cadcorp SIS, FME, Google Earth, VTP, Thuban, ILWIS, MapGuide and ArcGIS.
GDAL/OGR is the most widely used geospatial data access library.
""""
The suggested test comes straight from the Description section of the
GDAL/OGR info sheet:
http://www.osgeo.org/gdal
I prefer it to the original text which (IMHO) emphasizes the utilities
over the core library. I also don't like the title "Transformation
Library". To me that suggests coordinate transformation rather than
geospatial data translation.
I do not have a suggested screen shot - we ran into the same issue with
the info sheet. There is a logo for the project:
http://www.gdal.org/gdalicon.png
which is also available in svg at:
http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/data/GDALLogoColor.svg
Best regards,
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