[gdal-dev] A few questions for a new user.

2013-03-11 Thread Nick
Hello all, I am using the Java bindings on a Windows 7 machine. I am trying to do my first conversion of a file based on the API Tutorial and the sample java files. 1) How does gdal.Open() convert the ingested data into a Dataset object? I've looked at the Javadocs and API listed, but I cannot

Re: [gdal-dev] A few questions for a new user.

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Halls
Nick, you are asking questions about the inner workings of GDAL/OGR, rather than the Java API. At the heart of GDAL/OGR is a library of C++ functions that do the work. So, when you open a dataset, the low level routines obtain memory for the data structures, populate them and pass, as a res